I spent two hours this morning reading over farm and agricultural history....in relationship to the use of nitrogen and fertilizer.....with all turmoil going on in the Netherlands.
You can trace the use of fertilizer back to the Roman ages, and farmers generally knew the benefit of use. It's not a thing introduced just in the past hundred years.
But historians will say to some degree...use has been reported going back six-thousand years.
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The real problem is the push for vegan plant based diets and the extensive use of fossil fuel derived nitrogen. Proper soil maintenance requires animals, and then you still only can maintain it. Very difficult to improve it without massive resource expenditure.
It's hard for consumers to walk into a grocery and imagine the effort by farmers, the logistics/transport industry, and the product industry....to realize the 1,500 items in a typical Lidl, Penny, or Edeka....required x-amount of work/cost.
In my German village...up until the late 1960s, they had a grocery shop that featured around 200 products on the shelf, with a deli/cheese area. That was it. The 'resource-chain' has changed all of the dynamics in the past couple of decades.
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