What if the presence of a pest isn't an attack but a report card?

You know, soluble fertilizers for plants are like ultra-processed foods for people.

And for decades, modern agriculture has been locked in an arms race.

We've been taught that to grow a crop we must be at war, war with the weeds, war with the insects, and war with the soil itself.

We've relied on rescue chemistry to keep plants on life support,

while often ignoring the very biological systems that were designed to make them thrive.

But what if we've been looking at the symptoms instead of the source?

What if the presence of a pest isn't an attack but a report card?

He's the man who codified us the current state of global agriculture and why it's a failing

model. Well, can you have a cancer patient become better and improve their health in the long

term with chemo and radiation and cancer drugs.

And we know that the short answer is no.

Those can be valuable and necessary tools to halt the progression of a rapidly moving disease.

But once the disease is halted, if you just stop there and you just

maintain the status quo and you continue with the same level type of diet and lifestyle choices

and everything else that led to cancer in the first place, then you're going to end up with the same type of

result. Again, you're going to have a cancer relapse. You're going to have, or you're going to have

something else, other types of degenerative illnesses. I think it's perhaps that framing that is at the

foundation of how people are starting to think about agriculture differently and just realizing,

you know,

we don't get headaches because we have aspirin deficiencies.

And our crops don't have these chronic diseases and we don't have these systemic chronic

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