Why do we have a health crisis in the developing world today? 

That's a bit of a rhetorical question, for sure. But, to start, we generally eat shit food and don’t exercise enough. As we’re mostly aware, our conventional food supply is highly processed, high in sugar, salt, fat, and other suspect “ingredients.” I say "mostly aware" because there are still people that think a Big Mac is good for them.  

Prior to the processing steps conventional crops are grown with extremely high inputs of pesticides and fertilizers, rendering them basically “dead,” devoid of the glorious biochemistry that not only make organic food nutritious for us and other critters, but ensures they have their own strong immune system capable of fending off the onslaught of diseases and other maladies they’ll face each growing season. If we are to ever improve the quality of the food we eat, we have to start where it is grown. We can’t reverse engineer poorly grown crops. 

It Takes Good Food to Grow Good Food
The sole purpose of any farmer should be to grow food, fiber, and, to a limited degree, fuel of the highest quality. In order to do this, farmers need to start from a basic premise that growing overmedicated crops may produce high yields, but the quality is low energetically and nutritionally (though they are really one and the same) – neither of which leads anywhere good. In order to shift that paradigm, they have to grow healthy plants (and animals, for you livestock lovers out there). In order to grow healthy plants and animals, the crops and livestock need food that is healthy, too. In others words, it takes good food to grow good food. 

The beauty and tragedy of Rudolf Steiner’s clairvoyance was his ability to “see” things the average person couldn’t. Nearly a century ago, he already knew that the quality of food was already low and doing great harm to our intellectual capabilities, not to mention what could happen in a few decades. He knew this all before modern pesticides, fertilizers, tractors, processing plants, high fructose corn syrup, and on and on came along. 

High Vibrational Farming
So why, if processed food is so bad for you and me, would we give basically the same stuff to the crops we’re growing? It may be easier to buy concoction XYZ off the shelf than it is to make a homemade version, but what you gain in convenience you lose in potency. It may be easier to buy something kills the pest of the day than it is to grow healthy plants that can fend for themselves, but again, what you gain in convenience you lose in potency. We can't be lulled by fancy advertising or grandiose promises that big industry knows best.

Unfortunately, this argument is not black and white. There are many good and necessary manufactured products that farmers can use each and every day. The point then is to examine the food we’re giving our plants and animals that same way we should be examining the food we put in our own bodies. If a compost tea or biodynamic prep is the order of the day, then take the time to make that tea or stir that prep rather than reach for a convenience alternative. Simply put, holistically grown plants and animals are energetically and nutritionally of the highest level. What are you doing to ensure your crops are healthy and happy?