Lewis County Herald - Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898

Principle 10 of good

nutrition: Eat plant

and animal foods raised on healthy soils

Foods from healthy soils are far more nutritious. Unfortunately many soils today are depleted of critical minerals that were once abundant. Modern agriculture uses chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. Beef are finished in filthy, crowded feed lots. Chickens are stacked on top of each other, pigs can barely turn around, and neither see the sunshine. Most of these animals receive hormones and antibiotics and other unnatural chemicals. These practices do not produce healthy food.

What is healthy soil? I...