Food value
Because of the increased availability of food in richer countries food is wasted more because it didn't have the same value as before, in the olden days the food had a lot more value because it was harder to get food and store it in a way it didn't go bad, because of the technology they had at that time.
But with the newer techniques of harvesting as much food as possible from the land (intensive farming) using chemical/ inorganic fertilizer has some very large consequences. One consequence with many chemical/inorganic fertilizers are the health effects of them on us.12 of the most popular pesticides in the United States have ingredients known to cause cancer. Also some other health effects caused by chemical fertilizer, are acute and chronic neurotoxicity (insecticides, fungicides, fumigants), lung damage (paraquat), chemical burns (anhydrous ammonia).
“Cancer was relatively rare before World War II. But after the war ended, the incidence shot up. Cancer became the second-leading cause of death in the Eastern European nation.” the suspected reason for this was because of the environment, chemical fertilizers were relatively rare before ww2 But then after ww2 fertilizers were a lot more common.
Because of the increased availability of food in richer countries food is wasted more because it didn't have the same value as before, in the olden days the food had a lot more value because it was harder to get food and store it in a way it didn't go bad, because of the technology they had at that time.
But with the newer techniques of harvesting as much food as possible from the land (intensive farming) using chemical/ inorganic fertilizer has some very large consequences. One consequence with many chemical/inorganic fertilizers are the health effects of them on us.12 of the most popular pesticides in the United States have ingredients known to cause cancer. Also some other health effects caused by chemical fertilizer, are acute and chronic neurotoxicity (insecticides, fungicides, fumigants), lung damage (paraquat), chemical burns (anhydrous ammonia).
“Cancer was relatively rare before World War II. But after the war ended, the incidence shot up. Cancer became the second-leading cause of death in the Eastern European nation.” the suspected reason for this was because of the environment, chemical fertilizers were relatively rare before ww2 But then after ww2 fertilizers were a lot more common.