About-face in the Way of Thinking for Protection of the Environment and Health

Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and large-size machinery characterize present-day intensive agricultural operations. Technological advances in the application of those chemicals and machinery have made a large contribution toward solving the food problem, to be sure, but with detriment to the earth's environment and endangering man's health. Such untoward consequences were also observable not in agriculture and the manufacturing industry alone but in medicine and many other branches of science as well. In 1972, I was diagnosed with pesticide poisoning. With this as a turning point, I washed my hands of modern agriculture, which had been in my line for many years, and decided to do research in microbiology in earnest with my sights set on establishing farming of the sort that is friendly to the natural environment and compatible with the laws of nature. So far, I have harvested well over 2, 000 varieties of microbes. At least two years would be required for the study of one variety thoroughly if conventional methods were employed. So, I gave up all the old ways and resorted to my own method of eliminating harmful bugs and unpleasant odors using pH values and activated water. As a result, a symbiotic group of colonies made up of more than 80 kinds of “effective microorganisms”(EMs) has been formed. Without reliance on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, it has become possible to produce more than twice as much crops of high quality only by dint of EMs. Not only that, those microscopic organisms have proved to be surprisingly helpful in the improvement as well as conservation of the environment. Agricultural, livestock and fishery products produced through the use of EMs are rated high as healthy foods today. Now that it has been made clear that the favorable effects of EMs are due to the antioxidizing substances synthesized by EMs, the scope of their application is being expanded from the above-mentioned sectors to medicine, manufacturing industry, environmental protection, energy resource development and so on. Thus, the EM technology is hailed as something that will bring about a new industrial revolution. The principle of the technology is very simple: Oxidation breaks down everything on earth, but is prevented by the work of antioxidizing substances formed in EMs. The application of this principle could not have been thought of no matter how much the knowledge of modern science as based on the law of entropy was extended. A good idea occurs when you ge