It’s a shame. Some people have actually never tasted a homegrown garden tomato. I remember them well. The juice running down my chin, between my fingers. One of my favorite meals: Fresh sliced garden tomatoes, cucumber in vinegar, fresh corn on the cob, fresh radishes. Meat? Who cares! Hamburger, pork chop, chicken but not too much; gotta have room for the fresh veggies. I hate veggies, except the fresh, drip down your chin kind that came from the field or garden with nutrients intact, flavor fresh out of the ground.

My supermarket sells home grown fresh tomatoes in the summer; they buy from local producers. Why anyone would buy those tasteless, anemic things they grow in Florida, I’ll never understand. If nobody bought them, they would soon start growing for flavor again. But the idiot consumer will just pull the crap off the shelves and call it good. No one pays attention to food any more. Which is a shame and is criminal IMO. Food is what keeps us alive. Something so necessary should also be tasty and pleasurable. But instead, as usual, commerce breeds the nutrients out of food or strips them out, and markets them as the same thing.

Are you aware that current foods have 25% or less of the nutrients they did 100 years ago? And you wonder why we’re so sick? And diseases increasing in vigor. We’re fading away because so is our food. There are things in every food that are beneficial to humans and help to prevent various diseases. If the foods no longer have 100% of those ingredients, there is nothing there, or insufficient amounts, to protect us so our cancers, asthmas, celiac disease, ulcers, etc., etc., etc. increase in number and severity.

Onward, Commerce! Human race, we had a good run, unfortunately, we committed suicide in the droves. Suicide by stupidity.