We have to do this anyhow. Our scientists have now become alarmed at the widespread presence of man-made 'endocrine blockers' in our environment, and hence, in our blood and tissue. The residues and byproducts of agricultural poisons, these chemical 'endocrine blockers' block the normal functions of our sex, growth and regulatory hormones. See, "Something awful is happening to humans, animals", CNN News, (www.cnn.com) June 30. 1997. This is particularly ominous for our unborn, newly born, and growing children. What is a small dose for an adult, is a huge dose for the very small.
All this can be changed very easily, very cheaply, and very quickly.
In as little as 1 year - if pushed hard - we can have a completely poison-free agriculture, just by using the immensely powerful laws and forces that have created our teeming biosphere. These are not hairy-fairy, ivory tower theories - but down-to-the-dirt, nitty-gritty methods and discoveries. I have done it for many years in our large market gardens. This agriculture consists of 3 simple steps:

Here is how:


Step 1) The Elimination of Practically All Plant Diseases

A once-a-year application of a complete spectrum 40+ trace element fertilizer eliminates practically all plant diseases. The reason this simple, totally natural method works so wonderfully well is pure and simple common sense, and goes right to the very foundation and core of the natural dynamics of our biosphere. It is also a profoundly new, supremely valid, and powerfully effective approach to the cure and prevention of almost all human diseases.

Life has arisen and evolved, for 3.5 billion years, in the seas of the Earth. And the seas of the Earth have always contained - and still do - the 92 natural elements of the Earth in solution. Consequently, and right from the beginning of Life itself, more than 40 (!) natural trace elements have been incorporated into the normal function of the basic metabolic and immune systems of all living things - be this plant, animal or human. All Life is built upon the ready availability of the 40+ biological trace elements in its environment and food.

In deadly contrast, our modern agriculture monitors and maintains only a paltry total of 5 (!) trace elements in its soils. This is not done out of malice or profit motives; it is just gross and fundamental ignorance. Due to this profound ignorance and neglect, well over 30 (!) biological trace elements have become either severely deficient, or entirely absent, in most agricultural soils. Consequently, and lacking many fundamental and crucially vital ingredients, our food crops are subject to a whole range of diseases - which we fight with poisons, and which makes us and our environment even sicker.

As early as 1936, US SENATE DOCUMENT NO. 264 stated that the land used to grow grains, fruits and vegetables is seriously deficient in needed trace elements (then called 'minerals'). The ongoing failure to replace the complete, natural 40+ range of the biological trace elements is making our food crops and livestock sick - and consequently us as well.     "The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals (now called trace elements) are making us sick - no matter how much of them we eat. No man today can eat enough fruits and vegetable to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them... The truth is that our foods vary enormously in value, and some of them aren't worth eating as food... Our physical well being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our system than upon calories or vitamins or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein or carbohydrates we consume." (US SENATE DOCUMENT NO. 264 Published in 1936).

But given a 40+ trace element fertilizer - the eons-old foundations of all metabolic and immune functions of all living things - this eliminates practically all plant diseases, even, and especially, the 'incurable' ones. It is that simple, and straightforward. It also substantially increases yield; in some cases up to 4-fold. I never ceased to be amazed at the strapping health and lush productivity of our crops.

This method also delivers the complete natural range of the 40+ biological trace elements to us via our daily food, with equally astonishing results. It eliminates practically all human diseases. The same, of course, holds true for livestock, the source of the meat in our nutrition.

Linus Pauling, winner of 2 Nobel prizes, stated: "You can trace every sickness, disease or ailment in the human body to a mineral (trace element) deficiency."

It is also an almost ridiculously cheap method of eliminating all plant diseases. Only a single application per year is required, and the additional cost of the 40+ trace element fertilizers is offset many times over by the far greater savings in the cost of agricultural poisons and their frequent applications (typically at 10 day intervals) and equipment costs. All that is not needed anymore.

And all it takes is a massive public demand to the authorities - to legislate the presence of the full range of the 40+ trace elements in all agricultural soils. And it's done. Fertilizer manufacturers and farmers will do the rest. And besides poison-free food, land and water, we also get lifelong freedom from disease in the bargain. If pushed hard, we can have a poison-free agriculture - and hence, poison-free food - in as little as one year.

Meanwhile, and for those who would like to get started right away - be this on the farm, in greenhouses, gardens, or on the balcony - all marine-life based fertilizers (fish, kelp and seaweed fertilizers) contain the complete natural range of the 40+ biological trace elements.

Try it, and you'll see.

Step 2) The Elimination of Practically All Insect Pests

A single application of a little known but supremely effective natural predatory insect provides permanent and supremely effective insect control. It eliminates practically all agricultural insect pest.

This fabulous insect is the 'wolf spider' - so-called because it actively hunts its prey from dawn to dusk, instead of building webs and waiting for whatever comes along. This tiny (3/16" from stem to stern) and all but invisible spider occurs all over the world, and is a relentless and merciless hunter of all manner of insects, their larvae and eggs. Carnivorous, it is completely harmless to all plants, but deadly to all insects.

And unlike ladybugs, praying mantises and predatory wasps, this tiny spider stays put where it is. It does not fly away. Once you have it, you have it forever. In our market gardens, sufficient individuals and eggs survived even the yearly spring plowing, and rototilling (twice!), to re-generate new virtual armies of the all but invisible spiders in no time flat. And unlike our poisons, wolf spiders are not washed away by rain, nor can insect pests adapt to them; they can never become 'spider-resistant'; it's impossible.

Since varieties of wolf spider occur in all countries and all regions of the world, the problem of introducing foreign biological insect controls does not arise. Instead, and most likely, we are just re-establishing what used to be an existing natural insect control before our bare-land agriculture came along.

All this tiny spider needs is a mulch. This is it's natural habitat, and any kind of mulch does the trick. And as is well known, a mulch provides multiple benefits:

1) it conserves moisture, and greatly reduces the need for irrigation.
2) it keeps the soil cool in the heat of day, and warm at night - and early and late in the season.
3) it substantially inhibits the growth of weeds.
4) it provides a haven for the wolf spider.
5) it's decay rapidly and substantially enriches the organic content, quality, fertility, friability, aeration, moisture holding capacity and soil biota content of the soil - as the first step to a permanently sustainable agriculture which becomes richer and more fertile with every season and with every year.

As is obvious, this is an almost ridiculously cheap agriculture. The permanent protection against all insects pest from a single application of a handful of wolf spiders (under favourable conditions, they quickly increase a million-fold) is immeasurably cheaper than the frequent applications of poisons, their application and equipment costs, and the associated health hazards, protection gear and insurance costs. All this is not required anymore.

On top of that we get substantial reductions of irrigation costs, greatly improved growing conditions, and soil which becomes richer and more fertile with every season.

The additional cost of providing a mulch is so massively outweighed by its manyfold benefits that its small cost is not even a matter of consideration. Besides, and by using suitable plant species (such as a low-growing clover) and shearing them periodically, a mulch can be grown in place, right where its wanted.

The tiny wolf spider provides almost 100% protection against all insect pests - which is far superior even to our best poisons. All I have ever found is 6 aphids - high up on a couple of 6 foot tall dill plants - in 2 acres of our market gardens. And since all the dozens of other dills did not have any, I think that the spiders simply missed them. I mean, this is almost ridiculous.

We now have the simple, completely natural, and supremely effective means which completely eliminate the need for any poisons whatsoever. (The agricultural poison manufacturers, who will be hardest hit by this, have the beautiful alternative of producing 40+ trace element fertilizers, and turn totally 'Green' in the process). And the benefits to our personal and collective health are simply immeasurable.

Step 3) A Progressively Richer and More Abundant Agriculture

Simply by returning all life wastes - all organic refuse, including our sewerage - to the soil, all chemical fertilizers become unnecessary as well, and we get an agriculture which gets richer and more abundant year by year. Chemical fertilizers, while great for providing the basic elements (nitrogen, phosphorus, potash), lack the crucial complexity of organic content and, therefore, simply cannot enrich the soil. Instead, and over time, their residues turn into salt and eventually make the soil sterile and unarable. Millions of acres in North America and elsewhere have already become too salty to grow anything. It is a huge problem, compounded by damaging 'fertilizer runoff' into our rivers and water tables.

On the other hand, and as shown on PBS documentaries, large agricultural communes in China have long composted all their life-wastes - in underground concrete 'bunkers', to eliminate any pathogens in the life-wastes - extracted the methane for heating and cooking, and then returned the resulting compost to the soil. With this simple method, they have gone from two to three harvests per year - while the quantity, quality and fertility of their soils has steadily increased!
It has been shown in PBS documentaries, for goodness sake. (For another neat story and approach - using 'grey water'- go to "The 1.500 lbs. Pear Tree").

With this simple and totally natural method, we can turn poor soil - even barren aggregate - into rich, fertile loam, and increase the amount of rich topsoil year after year after year. Just by the simple return of all life-wastes to the soil, we can gain 1 foot of rich topsoil in 12 years, 2 feet in 24 years, and so forth, and so forth, ad infinitum. This makes all chemical fertilizers unnecessary and, moreover - once the 40+ biological trace elements have been fully re-established in all agricultural soils - the return of all life-wastes also returns all the trace elements to the soil (!). Eventually, it will make the 40+ trace element fertilizers unnecessary as well.

In addition, this also solves many other major problems of our civilisations. It eliminates all our sewerage problems. In the process, it also yields a permanently sustainable source of methane, either for heating and cooking, or for automotive fuel, or both. Our combustion engines can be easily and readily converted to burn methane, which will greatly reduce the amount of air pollution in our environment. It also eliminates the huge problem of fertilizer runoff. It also eliminates the huge and steadily worsening problem of the increasing salinity of our agricultural soils.

Naturally, there is a great opportunity for making a great deal of money here. All cities and municipalities are willing to pay much money to someone who will take all their organic refuse and sewerage off their hands. This someone can then turn around and sell the methane to utilities or gas stations, and the compost to farmers. It is the only business I know where one gets paid thrice - by the cities and municipalities for taking their organic wastes off their hands, for selling the byproduct of methane, and again, when selling the the finished compost. The investment (in underground composting bunkers) is relatively minor, and returns begin to flow in immediately via the generated methane. It's an inexhaustible gold mine - and in many more ways than one. It is also totally, and beautifully 'Green'.

Finally, an agriculture which gets richer and more abundant year after year can easily feed double and triple our present numbers, which will become a burning issue early in the next century. There, that's it. It is as simple as that.

Now that we have beautiful, natural, cheap, and supremely effective alternatives which are far superior to agricultural poisons in every way there is, we can raise a massive public demand for the ban (as done with DDT) of all agricultural poisons. If pushed hard, we can have such an agriculture in as little as 1 year. Meanwhile, individual farmers, growers, greenhouse operators and home gardeners can go ahead on their own, reap the massive cost reductions of this poison-free agriculture, and label and sell their products as 100% bio-organic - and more importantly, as 100% 'bio-elementric'.

And our personal reward will be the return of our natural birthright to lifelong freedom from all diseases, and strapping healthy offspring, in an environment of poison-free food, land and water.

Please note: For a far more extensive account go to "The Healing Page", a site dedicated to the foundations of our health and a poison-free agriculture.

And rather than re-writing this page, new discoveries, insights and meaningful developments in the agricultural sciences towards a poison-free and permanently sustainable agriculture will be posted here in the "Updates" page.

Further, much recent research has increased the number of essential nutritional trace elements (or fertilizers in agriculture) from over 40 to around 62, and one intrepid investigator has gone as far as 72 trace elements.

I'll gladly answer any questions you may have.

- - - Life-long Freedom from All Diseases is Our Natural Birthright - - -

© Peter Weis; Vancouver, BC; Canada; April 1997 ©
updated Sept. 15. 1998

pweis@direct.ca



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