Government Document
Senate Document 264 — "Modern Miracle Men"
A landmark document presented to the U.S. Congress warning that intensive farming had severely depleted essential minerals from American farmland, directly impacting human health. Nearly a century later, its conclusions remain profoundly relevant.
- Millions of acres of farmland depleted of essential minerals
- Mineral-deficient soils produce nutritionally poor crops
- "Lacking minerals, vitamins are useless"
- Physical health depends more on minerals than calories or food quantity
- One of the earliest official links between soil health and human disease
