Fertilizers are the ruination of soil.It give more food production first when you start using it but to keep that production up you have to add more and more of it.Natural fertilizers build up your soil,gives better tasting vegatables but less production per acre.It also is more labour intensive to apply and therefore more costly.The public wants cheap food, so the farmers go with chemical fertilizers.Eventually it will come home to roost.Without good soil, held together by organic matter, we can easily lose it to wind and water erosion.It all comes down to greed,farmers want as much production per acre as he can get, to provide cheap food for consumers and make as much profit as he can.But to continue doing so, he abuses his land, not giving it the proper nutrients to maintain healthy soil,not producing healty products,which affects the health of consumers.Land is suppose to be rested every seven years according to the bible,so it can recoup and recover, but rarely does that happen. Without good food and good water,we have nothing, and we are fast polluting both, not to mention the air we breathe.