was time to do some serious research. "Can you believe that you can take pretty much identical-looking hay from neighboring fields, feed 50 pounds a day from one field to a cow and have her drop in milk production and get sick , and feed half as much from the other field and have the cow rise in production and be healthy ? What is the difference between the two samples of hay? QUALITY!" ---Dr. Harold Willis "How To Grow Great Alfalfa" Anyone who can?t make a connection between the above quote and the importance of only putting high-quality fruits and vegetables into their body is reading the wrong book. Dr. Arden Andersen's treatise on ecological agriculture suggested obtaining a refractometer to test one's output. I did, and small-scale farming has never been the same for me since. The mystery of that earlier bug-proof garden with its scrumptious fruits was soon revealed. It's so simple: when the brix is low, the taste is poor, and the insects come. When the brix is high, the taste is superb and the insects seem to busy themselves elsewhere. The farmer's job is simply to remineralize and fertilize in such a way that the plants, properly fed, can develop higher brix. I've studied much agriculture since then. Clearly, the conventional farmers should not use toxic chemicals to rescue crops that are obviously sick---and then sell them to you. However, they can't be blamed: so much of their education comes via the agriculture schools that