What is a poor plant to do?

 
   
It all started with the invention of the Crapper.  
   
[Thomas Crapper, a Plumber who installed and sold so many toilets they became known as Crappers.  He did not invent it, but he did invent the Ballcock]    
   
The whole concept of  
flushing away DooDoo  
instead of returning  
it back to the earth,
 
Although it did indeed drastically increase
the health and welfare of the people,
  
created a new modern malaise  
whereby the valuable nutrients and minerals  
that the plant world is starved of,  
gets flushed out to lakes and to sea,  
creating fertilizer where it should not be,  
choking streams and rivers with algae.    
 
   
What's a poor plant to do  
without doo doo?    
 
A plant, just trying to make it in this world,
will draw life giving nutrients up from the soil  
using its roots  
But when the plants are eaten, the nutrients are carted away.
Eventually, year after year, the plants    
will suck the soil free of all the  
minerals and good nutrients it needs,  
leaving the soil unable to grow more food.
 
The great grasslands of the American Plains,  
once filled with countless buffalo  
lived for thousands of years in a symbiotic symphony
where the animals and their feces were returned to the earth,
where they were borrowed from   
     
Modern science steps in to save the day.    
A process,  
that uses electric power,  
yes the same electricity that  
makes your hair drier work,  
 
Takes the Nitrogen gas that  
makes up about 78 percent of the air we breathe,  
and combines it with Oxygen to make NO3,  
or Nitrates, which plants can use  
to make proteins inside themselves,  
so we can eat them or  
feed them to animals,  
then eat the animals.  
   
Yes,  
the plants produced by this fertilizer  
can be vast in quantity,  
enough to feed the masses of earthlings.  
 
they are, though,  
quite devoid of some of the more subtle nutrients  
that make up plants.  
The 'Organic' tomato,  
grown in a soil rich in a multitude of other nutrients,  
not just the bare essentials,  
does not happen over night.  
 
It is grown in soil rich in a  
long tradition of minerals and nutrients  
returned to the soil,  
after they have been used by the people  
and other sundry creatures  
that have happened to eat a plant.    
 
[Sundry:Various, varied, assorted items not pointed out as individual items]  
   
   
Pardon my vernacular, but Doo Doo is Sacred.  
   
[Vernacular: Native manners of speaking of a particular group of people]