 People are eating, thinking it'll nourish their life. It's not doing much to them except filling them up, nothing much. If the nutrients do not have necessary iron, vitamin A, C, D, B6, B12, folate, iron, all these things, you become far more susceptible. In 1930s, what one orange would give you, today you need to eat eight oranges. Okay, I will take more pills, more pills, more pills. It's not going to work like that. The reason why this pandemic is having the kind of toll that it's having upon us, there are medical issues, I'm not entering that. One fundamental thing is, the soil nutrients are so low, how low is it? The soil depletion, I'm only talking about United States. The soil depletion in United States has led to twenty-one percent drop in vitamin A in all the fruits, vegetables and everything else that you're eating. Thirty percent drop in vitamin C, thirty-seven percent drop in iron levels, twenty-seven percent drop in calcium levels. The things that today you all think is very healthy to eat salads and stuff, the spinach, the... what is your favorite leaf? The lettuce, the lettuce and tomatoes and other things which you normally use in your salad. From the early twentieth century, what level of nutrients they had and what they have today is only ten percent left, ninety percent lower than what it was in early twentieth century. So you're largely eating water sacks without much nutrient in it. If we had that level of nutrition, our ability to... not hundred percent, but our ability to counter this would have been different. We would be at a different level of immunity that it wouldn't be such a scare. So many people need not die. I'm saying over six million people have died in the world. United States alone is nearly nine hundred thousand now. Just United States alone is nearing nine hundred thousand number of deaths. The nutrient studies across the world are showing the nutrient depletion in the food across the world is so significant, it's tragic that we are eating something, thinking it is food that nourishes us, but actually it has nothing. The question is not even... I'm not even going to the place of fertilizers, anti... you know, pesticides, herbicides. I'm not even going there about... that is outright poisoning, all right? I am talking about depletion of food. That itself is tragic. People are eating, thinking it will nourish their life. It's not doing much to them except filling them up, nothing much. And that is one reason why we have to fear the pandemics. And I've been listening to some of the top viralists in the world, they're all saying that this may not be the end because the very nature and structure of the corona, the fundamental corona as such, already you have seen two, three variants. Now we are talking about Mr. Omicron, he sounds like a guy. So they are saying, far more brilliant and far more capable viruses can easily develop with a small region in their basic structure and they're very much capable of doing that any moment. So that is what every government fears, that is what every scientist fears and that should be the concern of every citizen. But in all this soil has a significant role, let's come to the food that we eat. If the nutrients do not have necessary iron, vitamin A, D, C, C, D, B6, B12, folate, iron, all these things, you become far more susceptible to any kind of respiratory infection is a well-established fact. And right now that is a serious condition because ninety percent of the Americans are deficient in vitamin E and that is why highest level of deaths in a given country for the population has happened in this country for 350 million people, nearly a million people are dead. This is the highest in the world. There are countries like India and many other nations far more densely populated. Just the amount of space that you have, you should have been safe. But lack of nutrients and irresponsible behavior has cost us so much. We have to ensure that more people don't go in this direction. So soil is a very important part. Forty-three percent deficient in vitamin A, loss of integrity of skin in the mucus membrane happens when there is not enough vitamin A and that is one sure way of having serious implications to any respiratory infections that we get and we must understand this COVID is essentially a respiratory tract infection and which can go into various kind of complexities later. Thirty-nine percent are deficient. Thirty-nine percent of the United States citizens are deficient in vitamin C and this is very vital for the antibody production, your vitamin C. Okay, I will take more pills, more pills, more pills. It's not going to work like that. The food should have it. They're saying, in 1930s, what one orange would give you, today you need to eat eight oranges. Has anybody eaten eight oranges in a day, any time, you eat. Okay? They are working in an orange form. Eating eight oranges a day is not a possibility for most human beings. One orange, what it would give you, today it takes eight. So considering all this, soil is an unfolding disaster for everybody. I was talking to the WFP director who is from United States. He said, last year we spent nine billion dollars distributing food in Africa to starved populations. This year our budget has to go up at least by four to six billion dollars. Otherwise we cannot fulfill this because the number of famines we're expecting in many parts of Africa is so high. And he said people thinking that this will only happen to Africa or Asia is unfortunately not true, that he's saying by 2035 there could be severe famines in Chicago and Illinois region, because the soil conditions have depleted so badly it can easily happen. Oh, we will transport all the food from here to there, there to here. No, when there is food shortage, no truck is going to reach its destination. People are going to loot it on the way. Hello? Yes or no? You orange eaters tell me, will the floored oranges, will you let it go to Canada? You guys are eating eight per day. You will stop it on the way. I'm saying the disruption, they are saying by 2045 there could be major civil wars all across the world simply because of soil depletion and they are seeing the only way that if people don't respond, if they don't do the necessary things, the only way is to go seriously into genetic engineered crops, the GMO crops, other things that your everybody has become fashionable to talk against, but that will become the only bridge which will see us across for 2025 years. But after that when you crash, there is simply no recovery unless you put the soil back. Every year on an average there is a loss of twenty-seven thousand species of microbes are going extinct per year. So if we let this go as it is for another twenty-five to forty years, after that recovery will take anywhere between hundred and fifty to two hundred years. If we act now, if we change the policies now and begin to act in the next ten to fifteen years time, in twenty-five years time we can turn this situation around. I feel this is a fundamental responsibility that we owe to ourselves and to future generations on this planet. What do you think?