lukes-56890 Review of Kiss the Ground

Kiss the Ground (2020)

Too one-sided. Not enough details about potential health risks

[6/10 · 20 August 2022]

This show is informative but leans toward those hippie dairy farmer mentality of selling raw unpasteurized milk. Raw milk DOES carry dangerous germs, and made MANY people SERIOUSLY sick. Me included as kid back in early 60s. The show only talks about carbon fixing soil by drawing CO2 from atmosphere which is noble. The show never mentions Nitrogen fixing soil by by rotating crops planting legumes (beans) which are nitrogen fixing to refertillize soil naturally. All smart farmers know this. Nothing new. I'm not sure how this cover crop business works if they are not nitrogen fixers. All smart farmers understand other plants compete for soil nitrogen even weeds. That's why farmers want to eradicate them. The unwanted plants hog the nitrogen. The parts of show that talks about composting onsite fields can be downright dangerous. That part about composting human feces in Haiti villages is nothing but reckless and dangerous for e-coli outbreak from hell. WE sure don't want to follow cow grazing or human uncomposted dung land with food crops or free grazing chickens pecking fresh cow dung. We all read about food recalls from e-coli and salmonella contaminated agriculture. It's exactly because of plants and animals exposed to uncomposted dung loaded with harmful bacteria. It can be recipe for disaster and probably why the USDA hasn't bought in yet. I encourage the show producers to make part 2 to explain more. One thing I believe will greatly help the problem of soil erosion and dust pollution is for the government to STOP STOP subsidizing farmers not to grow crops. The stupid ass government mandates to farmers to qualify the land must be plowed bare dirt. If you fly over the great San Joaquin Valley in California at 20,000 ft during crop times you can see for yourself. Half the land is bare dirt blowing away top soil dust storms. This is our government at work paying farmers not not grow crops. And California is eat up with air pollution?? Go figure.