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We want to make it so that the consumer doesn’t have to trust a label, or marketing, or a certification, or anything like that. X-Ray vision in the supermarkets.
from REGENER8 ED 2 2019.
by REGENER8
Imagine going to the super market, flashing a light at the carrots and being able to compare their real nutritional value to show you what you are really buying. Producers will no longer be able to skate by with visually appealing, but poorly grown and nutrient deficient food. Real-time accountability in the marketplace has the potential to dramatically impact the food system, our farms, our health and our ecosystem. Introducing the first prototype of the Bionutrient Meter!
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Warmly introducing Dan Kittredge. The mind behind the Bio-nutrient meter. Start from the beginning Dan and tell us everything.
My background is as an organic farmer. I grew up on an organic farm, a mixed farm with pigs, cows, ducks, geese, sheep, orchards, and mixed vegetables. More of a homestead than a serious market operation. But we had a farmer’s market, and CSA, and sold to health food stores and restaurants and things. That was my background, my childhood growing up. And my parents ran an organic farming organisation called NDFA, North District Farming Association. And have done for the last 35 years. So, I’ve got a strong background in, what we now call regenerative, but whatever, biological, alternative ag, community. And I travelled the world in my 20s, and actually spent a lot of time on farms globally in Siberia, India, and Central America etc.
When I got married in my 20s, and decided I wanted to have family, I had not found any other lifestyle that was more attractive than being on the land, farming, etc. But, the biggest issue that I came across was that I wasn’t able to do it economically, because, like a lot of other farmers, I had pretty significant issues with pest and disease pressure, etc. And I had been brought up with this idea that organic was better. And I thought that if my plants were sick, that was a sign that organic wasnt better. If that makes sense? So, I thought, maybe there’s something else… “A wonderful leverage point between the farmer and the consumer that we can all agree upon, sort of a high ground, is that nutritional value is something that we all say yes to - that’s important! Attempting not to be dogmatic about permaculture, or biodynamics, or organic, or regenerative or conventional. It’s really the results that matter.”
Maybe, organic isn’t the be all and end all and there’s more to it out there. Long story short, started educating myself, going to conferences, attending seminars, and reading books. We didn’t have YouTube then. You know, studying in the winter, and practising in the summer. And, in very short order, was able to get results that seemed quite stupendous. Pests disappeared. Diseases disappeared. Yields went up. Cost of production went down. Economic viability went up. I was like, oh my God, there’s something here. I didn’t necessarily know enough about it to… I knew enough to know that I didn’t know enough. But I knew enough to know there was something important there. So, about 10 or 12 years ago i started giving workshops and they turned into courses, and that basically turned into an educational organisation called the Bionutrient Food Association.
One insight that, I think, we have been holding for a while now, is that there’s this direct connection between the health of the plant, the health of the soil, the nutritional value of the food that’s produced, and the health of the human that eats it, or animals that the human eats. And so, our formal mission is to increase quality in the food supply; increase nutritional value. Because we think that that’s a wonderful leverage point between the farmer and the consumer that we could all agree upon, sort of a high ground. Nutritional value is something that we all say yes, that’s important. And we’re attempting not to be
dogmatic about permaculture, or biodynamics, or organic, or regenerative, or conventional. We think there’s insight and wisdom in all these different frames of reference. But it’s really the results that matter.
And so, through pretty much grassroots word-of-mouth means, we’ve spread from the north-east US across North America, and then a bunch of work in Europe, and a bunch of allies globally. And we have an annual conference. We’ve got local chapters in 15 different US states. We do a bunch of good, solid, educational, organisation, grassroots stuff but we’ve had this idea for a long time that if you work with nature, things work better- that the food is more nutritious. That if the cost of production goes down for the farmers, then we really need to be starting to implement this broadly, globally. We understand the correlations between plants well grown and carbon sequestrated in environment’s yield. Not just the environment but also the humans. And so, the question really was, how can we take these insights about biological systems and how they work, and really try to spread them broadly, globally.
And the basic thought is, these days, money talks. Our thought was if we can figure out some way to connect the economic incentive with these results, then we could have a strategy for rapid, broad evolution. And so, basically, the idea is, we want to make it so that the consumer doesn’t have to trust a label, or marketing, or a certification, or anything like that. They can actually see how good this food is in relation to other food. And this is one of the fairly untold stories.
In the collective consciousness, there is an understanding that food, nutrient levels have decreased over time. Here in the US, we’ve got the United States Department of Agriculture records going back to the 1930s and 40s. And Britain, and Japan, and I’m sure other countries as well, they’ve been assessing food and identifying what’s in it. If you look at the trajectory, there have been 40, 50, 80 percent decreases in nutrient levels over time, on average. But, there is no average carrot. Just like there is no average human. And our understanding is that some carrots are grown well and taste good. And some carrots are not and don’t. And so, our idea is, if you go to a grocery store, or a farmer’s market, where you have multiple produce of carrots, or cartons of milk, or whatever to choose from, we would like to support you, the consumer, in being able to choose the one that’s most flavourful, most nutritious for yourself and your family. Because there’s a direct connection between flavour and nutrition. We are already hardwired with the capacity to tell nutrient levels in food. We don’t need this little sensor. Our noses and tongues are very sophisticated. I like to tell people, you buy a bag of carrots from California and they say organic on them, and they taste bitter, that’s your inbuilt nutrient monitoring system telling you it’s no good for you. Doesn’t matter if it’s certified organic. It may not be toxic but it’s certainly is not particularly nutritious.
So, as an aside, as part of this work, we did run, I think it was a little of over 900 samples of carrots and spinach. We set up a lab last year to do this assessment. To identify the variation. We know there’s been decrease over time but the question is, what’s the variation right now, in what’s available to us. And, depending on which element you want to look at, calcium, or potassium, or copper, zinc, boron, or manganese, it’s probably a 500- 1000% variation. Which means, this one carrot has as much copper as those five carrots. Or this one leaf of spinach has as much calcium as those 10 leaves of spinach. So, a 5:1 or 10:1 variation in those elements.
But what’s really exciting, is in the health-giving compounds, the antioxidants and polyphenols, we found a 20,000 to 50,000 percent variations. Which means, this one carrot has as many polyphenols in it as those 200 carrots. Or this one leaf of spinach has as much antioxidants as those 500 leaves of spinach. Literally, you eat this one leaf of spinach, and you get the same amount of compounds as if you ate 500 leaves. So, the variation in the food supply is massive. And this is a story that hasn’t been told. And I think as we begin to tell it, and help people to understand the implications and correlations, we’re going to have a pretty fun time.
So how do you achieve this? How do you actually give the consumer the ability to test that in real time? Flash a light at the carrot and say, beep, 20 out of 100. Beep, 80 out of 100. Every element, copper or zinc. Every compound, protein, or carbohydrate, in Chemistry, is a vibration in Physics. Astronomers are able to tell us what stars are made of. They can say Alpha Centauri is eight light years away. We know it’s 51% hydrogen and 48% helium and 1% other gases, in these levels and ratios. We know that because of this science called Spectroscopy. Which basically says every element vibrates at a certain speed. And if you take a picture of that light coming off that star, you can read what it’s made up of. And so, our thought is, if we can figure out what something 8 light years away is made of, or in fact, much farther away, can we figure out what’s something of an 8th of a millimetre away is made up of? Yes, we can.
We’ve had this idea for a number of years, at least eight now. But the issue was, can we mass produce a unit at a consumer price point that can do this? Only in the past couple of years, does it seem like the technology has caught up with the fantasy. With all the smart phones out there and the mass production of these little handsets, you can actually build this kind of a tool for just a couple of hundred bucks. So, 2017, we built the first generation of this tool, this spectrometer, this bionutrient metre. We’re calling it the Real Food Campaign. One objective is to build a handheld tool that a consumer can use to flash a light at something, in the grocery store, or at the farmer’s market, and get a reading off it. Two is to identify the variation because you can flash the light at something, and read the light that bounces back, but if you don’t know what that means. Like, what’s the frequency of good, bad, and medium, then you can’t give the consumer an answer.
2017, we built the tool. 2018, we built the lab and our process for sampling in-data collection. And now, this year, 2019, we’re overlaying that on with the third step, which is correlating the quality results with the management practices. We want to be able to give growers realtime guidance about what your imbalances are so you can address them while the plants are still growing, so that when the buyer purchases them, they can see that you’re the top 20 percentile, or whatever. We don’t want farmers to be embarrassed at the point of sale by the consumer saying, “your stuff is junk.” We want the farmer to be empowered in real time to modulate their fertility, their management practices, to get the kind of results that look like superior quality. - is the core of our work that we’re engaged in, partnershipped with a number of other entities, some companies, some universities, other organisations, etc. It’s really quite exciting.
We don’t have many ground rules but one of them is that everything is open. All the data is public. All the engineering is public. The app, the algorithms, no part of this process will ever be propriety controlled by any corporations. It’s critically important that this information be available to anyone globally. Any grower of any scale, any consumer, that we have this capacity to discern, it’s freely available, not controlled by large corporations.
That sort of, idealistic, perhaps, perspective, I consider it strategic, has been one of our issues because, that means the funding for this whole thing is coming strictly from donations. There’s no investment opportunity. And it’s coming along quite nicely. We have made available the first units for people to purchase, as of last Fall, 2018. We are building the calibrations this year. And expect to have the tool you’ll get in the mail in a week will spit out a reading that looks like peaks and valleys on a graph, actually, right now. Only at the end of this year, will we be able to convert those peaks and valleys on a graph into red, yellow or green, or 20, 40, 80 out of 100, kind of response.
And so, these three steps - building the tool, identifying the variation in quality, correlating to management It’s really amazing what you guys are doing, Dan. Keeping this open source, I think is the biggest thing.
It’s a critical design component. We can look and see how things have been perverted in the past. And its often times been by a desire for control for profit. And that’s not the way that nature works… Nature works through symbiosis, through the synergy. And this reductionist paradigm of control is what’s killing us, our culture, the environment. We need to engage in a biological paradigm of synergy. And we have to structure it in from the beginning. I think that’s the only way we’re going to go through this paradigm shift is by shifting our structures.
Your technology is defining food outside of labels.
That’s the whole point. These labels are like religions. I’m a Muslim. You’re a Christian. You’re a Jew. Actually, we’re all sentient beings. Who all have our own direct connection so let’s get the hell away from this tribal “us and them” baloney. Regenerative, biological, organic, permaculture, agroforestry, agroecology. There’s all kinds of beautiful, profound, insightful streams of thought. Steinner called them streams, right, of thought. And I say let’s not have these streams be siloed. Let’s integrate them. Let’s learn from conventional ag. Let’s learn from organic. Let’s learn from biodynamics. Let’s let the results be the objective and let’s stop hopping on bandwagons. I understand we’re tribal by nature and so, we’ve got this impulse be on a team, and be opposed to somebody else.
It’s an interesting one because, we agree with you, but moving through a label, it gives you a platform to begin the conversation [Dan: Absolutely]. That’s one of the main benefits. It’s a conversation starter and it gives you a framework to start working in.
I think the impulse behind regenerative is very similar to the impulse behind organic. Similar to the impulse behind the localvores. And the agroecologists. All these more integrated perspectives have the similar impulse, which is to revitalise the ecosystem. Revitalise the culture. Revitalise this whole… In the Indigenous community of North America, the Native Americans said that every animal in Nature has a role. Beaver has its role. Fox has its role. And that the role of the human was caretaker. I’m sure other communities have said something similar but that’s the story I know from where I come from. I think that regenerative impulse, that term that people are coalescing around, is really about being a caretaker. Which is our proper role.
I think a lot of growers would be pretty scared about the bionutrient meter. It’s like there’s no lie here. You can’t lie about it. And it’s going to influence the consumer dollar more powerfully than ever. The Bionutrient Meter can change the entire economic force behind what we’re eating, and what we are buying
Absolutely. This could be a total gamechanger. And it’s not done yet. Right? We’re moving along the process but we haven’t done it yet. You can’t get a really slick, userfriendly, consumer-dumbed-down, quick response unit. We aren’t there yet. We’re a couple of million dollars shy of that. It’s a massive undertaking to gather the data, to be gauging the nutritional, mineral, vitamin content of every single vegetable. How they compare… Explain that process to us. How many people do you need involved to have that data… How big is that database going to be?
It’s pretty big right now. The reality is a lot of things have already been done. I think the technology, the process for assessment, the mode of analysis, the AI capacities, the software code, the engineering of these tools, the pieces are laying there in front of us, just waiting to be put together. I envision a process, whereby we have a very large number of people globally, actively engaged in data collection. In the same way that Facebook collects your personal data, whether you like it or not, the more farmers we have engaging in this process of sharing information of what their management practices were, what cultivars they used, what foliate sprays, what the phase of the moon was, what prayers they were saying, the more people we have engaging in this multi-faceted sharing and learning process, the more rapidly we can revitalise things. We’ve built the core structure for that process to occur. We did this literature review, and we looked at what the elements of interest were, we looked at what the compounds of interest were, we looked inside, which modes of assessment were relatively inexpensive. We’ve built the process, basically.
I was just in a conversation a couple of days ago with a group in France. There’s a bunch of Europeans who want to set up a lab there. We have to do this in a decentralised fashion. We can’t run this out of America. We need local nodes, globally. We designed the lab and the collection process to be very inexpensive, to be able to be done without requiring a PhD and a big fancy lab. I’m not sure if I’m answering your question entirely.
For the good people who are reading this right now, how would they get involved? How would this process extend itself to Australia?
One thing you can do if you bought a tool - you’re going to be getting an email next week, which invites you to be part of this global house party project… I just did the maths… We have 12 countries, 4 continents and 33 of the US states, people have these units in right now. Our thoughts were we would invite people to have some friends over. They can bring shopping from the grocery store, from the farmer’s market, and together, take your unit, and flash it at a bunch of these different crops, and populate this data set. In a weekend, with house parties, maybe 50 of them around the world, we can get 10,000 data points. As a social event, invite your friends over and flash lights at things. So that’s something quite simple. I know we’ve got at least 5 or 6 units of these things in Australia. It wouldn’t be hard to do that sort of thing.
As far as systemically setting up a lab and doing data collection, we aren’t just testing the crops, we’re testing the soil. We have a whole protocol for historical data, and your weekly management data, etc., etc. There’s needs to be an entity, or individual, some capacity to coordinate that process. We do have all the protocols clearly delineated and up on our website and anyone can access them. We are happy to hold your hand in setting something up. We’d love to have something in the southern hemisphere, in the eastern hemisphere. That’d be wonderful.
If you were a farmer, Dan, and you’re wanting to go through the process, how do they do that?
We’ve got about 100 farms we’re working with in North America this year, that are engaging in the complete process of historical management data, in-field realtime, weekly data updates, and then, a subset of those are sending
in their samples of soil and crops to the lab for assessment. If you don’t have anybody coordinating it locally, it’s a real pain in the butt to send vegetable samples from Australia to North America. Customs, shipping, and time, and rotting, and everything else. You guys would have to have a local network, organisation, community, for it to be practical. If there is interest, it sounds like you’ve got a network there, we would be really happy.
Part of what we’ve been organising is the National Regenerative Agriculture Day, which is on Valentine’s Day. We basically hijack Valentine’s Day [Dan: That’s beautiful]. Our mission, over the next 10 years, is to make Valentine’s Day synonymous with regeneration. It would be absolutely amazing, by next Valentine’s Day, if we could coordinate with 500 farmer’s market, and community gardens to do a massive data collection on the NRAD day as part of the week. [Dan: Incredible. That would be amazing]. We could call it VEGETABLE DISCLOSURE.
These stories are wonderful. Yes. Yes. If you could have people, a few hundred groups, in one country, getting together on one day, and doing some serious citizen science, that will help heal the planet, and heal our children. That would be powerful.
How much does it cost for one of these metres, Dan?
$377 US dollars.
I know we’ve talked about the labelling aspect, but one of the big key things getting discussed a lot
here in Australia at the moment, is labelling. Finding a certificate label for regenerative food. A lot of people are looking at how to gauge that. It’s going to happen in the next couple of years, that label. I’d like to guide a conversation with you on that topic, because I know it’s going to be of interest to lot a people. A food label that focuses on nutrition and not poisons, so much. Organic, to me, is related to dropping the poisons and the GMO’s. When I think organic, that’s what I think it is.
For me, the question is, is your label a process label, or a result label? That’s the biggest problem with organic, or with biodynamic, or with any of these other ones. If you follow the regulations that were set, you get the label. But you don’t, necessarily, have to get anything resembling a good result. That’s my biggest problem with these certification schemes, is they’re not based on results. They’re based on some group of people’s idea of what is right and wrong. And Nature’s the one who knows better than we do. So, if we don’t have a metric that is associated with Nature’s flourishing as the foundation of our label, we’re starting our own cult. It’s a fad.
Because I’ve been in the organic world for 35 years, I’ve watched the Slow Fooders, and the Western Pricers, the Permaculture community, all these buzz words, Localvores. They rise for a few years, then they sort of fall. Because there’s a true impulse there but there’s not an honest assessment as part of it. So, you can have… Localvores, for example, local food was the big hip thing a few years ago, until people started to realised that you can spray chemicals in your back yard just as well as you can spray chemicals in California. Do you want those chemicals in your well water?
The classic one is free-range eggs and what that truly means.
Free walking hens? Yeah. Companies have learned to make a little picture on their label that says “free walking” and there’s no certification behind it. But the consumers are like, “oh, it’s got a picture on it. There’s this word. Therefore, it must be true.” I think we have to get beyond… I call it religion versus spirituality. In religion, there is someone who knows better than you. Who tells you what’s right and wrong. In spirituality, you’ve got your own direct connection to the divine, however you define it. As long as we’re going to put our faith in labels, it’s like putting your faith in your priest. If you’ve got a label, you’ve got a priest, maybe it means something. You don’t necessarily know if you’ve got a good label or a good priest. And how do you get there? Why not just have your own direct connection with God? Why not be able to assess the food itself?
Ok let’s go past the label then, and let’s move towards the importance of nutrition. And how the notion of nutrition in our food is talked about a lot less, i guess because most people just assume its there. If i eat a carrot it is good for me full of minerals and vitamins. But it is just not the case anymore. All these diseases we’re now dealing with mostly because of lack of high nutritional food.
I’ve got this graph which shows average nutrient levels in food. The beginning of synthetic fertilisers; the beginning of herbicides; the beginning of insecticides. You can see when these things started being used, overlayed on top of the average nutrient levels in crops. And then, as part of that same graph, you see the incidences of chronic illness in the population. And they begin, as the mineral levels go down, the chronic illness skyrockets. Cancers, and heart disease, and diabetes, and osteoporosis, and ADHD. You just name it. All those things that are… The psychological and emotional imbalances. The hormonal imbalances. These are all having to do with nutrition. A hormone is a compound that is
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As the mineral levels go down, chronic illness skyrockets. Cancers, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and ADHD.
built out of elements. Your DNA… I’ve got a whole schtick I do about this stuff.
If you look at what it takes to build one strand of human DNA in Biochemistry. There’s these things called enzymes to screw the DNA together. When they did the Human Genome project, they identified all the enzymes necessary to build one strand of human DNA. Then, when they had identified the enzymes, they identified the elements at their core. It takes 25 different elements, like Copper, Zinc, Boron, Manganese, Cobalt, Cadmium, Selenium, Chromium, Palladium, Yttrium, keep going for a while. 25 different elements to replicate every strand of human DNA. Every single one of your cells has a nucleus in it with DNA as a core. Your body is constantly rebuilding itself. Every day, you’re building 4 billion new cells in your body. You need 25 different elements, in each one of those 4 billion different cells, just for maintenance.
The farmer, when they get recommendations from the university for their fertility program, it usually involves three elements: Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus. Sometimes Calcium. Sometimes Sulphur. But you’re basically missing 20 elements that aren’t being managed for. When those nutrients are not in our food, as they have become less and less over the past couple of generations, then they’re not in our bodies. And if our body needs those elements to function, and they aren’t there, then we start not functioning. And that’s what is going on. We are degenerating. We are physiologically degenerating. That’s why we have all these chronic illnesses. That’s why we have children with cancer, and children with all these horrible things that children shouldn’t have, because we are two or three generations into building our bodies out of something that’s not food. It’s either junk, or it’s food. It can’t be both. It’s mostly junk. It’s empty.
What’s exciting is you get a new body every six months. Your blood takes two weeks to replace itself. Your bones take seven years, but if you average it out, you get a new body every six months. We have the ability, if we start eating food that tastes good, in six months, get a new, better body, each of us. And in the process of building a better body for ourselves, the only way to do that is by eating food that came from a well-functioning, biological ecosystem.
If you’ve got a problem with the environment, the climate, eat food that tastes good. If you’ve got a problem with your child’s physiological issues, hormonal issues, emotional issues, eat food that tastes good. If you eat a carrot that doesn’t taste good, it’s not good for you. If you eat an apple or a peach that doesn’t taste good, it’s not good for you. If we just focus on this one thing of choosing the food that tastes good, then we systemically heal ourselves, and we systemically heal the environment.
Minor note, as far as I’m concerned, the real objective here is consciousness. And I’m hoping that I can head down that track with you. As far as I’m concerned, we have physical bodies, but we also have other aspects of our body.
In China, they talk about meridians and acupuncture. In India, they talk about the Chakras and yoga. The physicist suggest that 97% of reality is not on the physical plane. Dark matter and dark energy is most of the universe. The physical plane, all the things we can see with our tools, our telescopes, microscopes; all the stuff we can see is 5% of reality. We have a physical body, which is on a physical plane, which is 5% of reality but I think we’re hardwired with the ability to see on the other levels also. Many people make decisions, major decisions in life, based on another sense of knowing.
I like to think of it as music. I actually got into university of music. Didn’t finish it but that’s where I started. If you’ve ever been to an elementary school band concert, a primary school band concert, you know what dissonance is. You know what things vibrating out of tune feels like and sounds like. Every element, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Boron, Cobolt, every element in Chemistry is a vibration in Physics. Every compound, every hormone, DNA, etc. is a compound in Chemistry but a vibration in Physics. If your DNA is not being built right because the elements, the vibrations that are needed to build it aren’t present, then it is built inappropriately, and it vibrates out of tune.
If you’ve ever been to an Acapulco choir, singing beautifully in tune, four voices singing perfectly in tune, sometimes there’s this thing called an overtone, or harmonics. And that’s when a higher octave is sounded, even though no-one’s singing it. It becomes resonant.
My hypothesis is, as our physical bodies becomes more coherent because we have, in them, the nutrients we need to be built properly, as we become more coherent in our bodies, we are able to tune in to our higher natures more readily. I would suggest that all of the struggles we have now,
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politically, culturally, you know what’s going on in North America, in the US, politically, culturally. As we individuals become less coherent, we’re less able to tune into our higher natures, we become more dissonant. And our culture, and everything else, reflects that.
My thought is if we really want to accomplish any kind of systemic change, we ourselves must become coherent first. If we are building ourselves out of junk, we should not expect ourselves to become coherent. It is a foundational, political, economic, environmental, educational, spiritual act to eat food that tastes good.
From that baseline, from the bottom up, each of us takes responsibility for our own piece of this broader puzzle. As we become more coherent, we have more energy. We have more clarity. We tune into our vision and our insight, more well. We have more vitality and capacity. We’re more magnetic. Each of us needs to own this. And it’s really not much more complicated than literally letting your tongue tell you. Old people will talk about how things used to taste good. You go to some parts of the world, and things taste better. Well, it’s probably they weren’t grown in this industrial manner. They were grown in closer, symbiosis with nature. It all connects really beautifully, at least in my mind.
It’s so true. I’ve just finished watching David Wilcox’s ‘The Ascension Mystery’ schools. And he finished talking about the main 8 octaves and how they relate to the main 8 colour frequencies. And how those colour frequencies relate to their own dimensions, which are reflected in the energetic bodies. If we go to a market place, say, in Cuba we see these images of fresh food: a market place of colours. The colours are so vibrant and extraordinary. The colours, the aromas, the sounds and the tastes. You see the harmony and you know the food is good god food.
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We are wired to see this stuff. We have the sensors inbuilt for discernment. We don’t need this little gizmo. Nature built us a really sophisticated monitoring system. And if we think we need an external tool to bring us back into touch with it, so be it. That’s all it is [laughs]. Mostly an elementary attempt.
Dan we salute you and your efforts to heal the heart of our food chain. We are thrilled to introduce Vegtable Disclosure to our National Regenerative Agriculture Day 2020 and invite all groups who are interested in participating in this groundbreaking grass roots event to log onto the website and register their interest in receiving a Bionutrient Meter.
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