This jives very well with my theory that monoculture crops are encouraged by the state because fertilizer production is dual use tech - the same processes make bombs. So the US pushing its agricultural produce on other markets reinforces their ability to bomb those markets. And that's why the state will never support regenerative agriculture.
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This is a very good point that hadn't occurred to me. They do this with rockets, nuclear energy and all sorts of other things. I'd never thought about them doing it with agriculture.
yeah, i just read a bit more there isn't military uses of phosphate per se (unless you count phosphorous munitions, which are not a big thing, but exist however)... but your point about them using agriculture as a means to manipulate other countries by controlling a large share of production
phosphate fertiliser ruins the soil though, long term, because it binds up rapidly with calcium... colloidal forms of phosphate are much more beneficial and long term good for plant fertility
good phosphorus = soft rock phosphorus, blood and bone
it's basically calcium phosphate but in a form that doesn't dissolve in water but is not resistant to water as plain calcium phosphate (which is bone, basically) and yeah blood and bone is good for this, naturally, its form is colloidal and organic (contains carbon)