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The problem with monoculture farming is that the plants began to get bugs and funguses

and more susceptible to pesticides.

So they started using nitrogen to increase the yield and the plants got weaker.

They give up key enzymes and amino acids that were native to the plants and that would

protect it.

That was the immune system of the plants.

Well, let's create herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, which disrupt the microbes,

microbiome of the plants.

In other words, the bacteria cultures that convert the nutrients into the food that they

need that protects the plants, et cetera, et cetera.

So guess what?

That went on, weakening the plants, creating less nutrients and those chemicals ended up

damaging our own digestive health systems.

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