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The Suppression of Unorthodox Science 229
Dr. Julius Hensel was not only a student of agricultural chemistry, but
also biochemistry and nutrition, and he related all these sciences, and united
them into a composite science of life, which he labeled "Makrobiology."
His theory was that the chemistry of life is basically determined
by the chemistry of the soil, and that chemicals unbalance and pervert soil
chemistry while powdered rocks help restore normal soil mineral balance,
producing foods favorable to health and life. His discoveries concerning
the value of powdered rocks as soil conditioners and plant foods, though
rejected and ridiculed when he first proposed them, were adopted by agricultural
science nearly a century later, when the application of powdered
limestone, rock phosphate and other rocks became standard agricultural
pratice. Granite, which Hensel recommended as the most balanced of all
rocks as source of soil minerals, was first rejected as worthless, but later
appreciated and used as a soil mineralizer.
During the course of his researches, Dr. Hensel found that in the
primeval rocks, as granite, lie a potentially inexhaustable supply of all
minerals required for the feeding and regeneration of the soil, plants, animals
and man. All that is required is to reduce them to finely a pulverized
form, so that their mineral elements may be made available to plants.
Hensel wrote a book describing his discovery of a new method of creating
more perfect fruits and vegetables, rich in all nutritional elements and
immune to disease and insect pests, with the result that it produced wormfree
fruit without the need of spraying. The foods so produced by rockmeal
fertilization were true Organic Super Foods, far superior in flavor
and value than those produced under the forcing action of manure or
chemical fertilizers.
Hensel was the first to put up a fight against the then-growing new
chemical fertilizer industry—a struggle that was continued in the next
century by Sir William Howard in England and J. I. Rodale in America.
The use of chemical fertilizers, claimed Hensel, leads to the following evil
consequences:
1. It poisons the soil, destroying beneficial soil bacteria, earthworms and
humus*.
2. It creates unhealthy, unbalanced, mineral-deficient plants, lacking
resistance to disease and insect pests, thus leading to the spraying menace
in an effort to preserve these defective specimens.
3. It leads to diseases among animals and men who feed on these abnormal
plants and their products.
4. It leads to a tremendous expense to the farmer, because chemical fer-
* Decayed vegetable or animal matter that provides nutrients for plants.