A strange Human Phenomenon

Humans really don't make any sense sometimes.

For example, strawberries.

This is obviously an extreme example (actually I could have made it even more extreme), but here you see a typical monster strawberry you get from a typical grocery store. And next to it are some of the little strawberries that grow in my front yard.
The big ones may be fancy to look at, but they really don't have any flavor, if you stop to think about it. But people eat them anyway and say that they're tasty, because they're big and pretty.
As opposed to my tiny little things. Each on those teeny little berries has more flavor than those monstrous big things. Though admittedly, the smaller strawberries you can get at farmer's markets have a nicer flavor most of the time.

Originally I was just going to write a post about this strange thing that humans like to do.
But then in a book I was reading a few weeks ago, there were a couple pages about basically the same topic which was written in a very powerful way.
I'll sum it up.
Since the beginning of agriculture, humans used natural ways of replenishing the soil. Then during the agricultural revolution, chemicals were found to dramatically increase the effectiveness of dirt for growing food. Suddenly, most people forgot that nothing can last forever, and that as much as you can force something to produce better, eventually it will give out.
We twist and shape the very genes of plants, making them behave in very unnatural ways just for convenience, or because it's "cool." Because of this, crops are completely useless without a host of chemicals and poisons to protect them from their surroundings.
Food is made in factories, and no one knows it because they never see where their food comes from. They just go to the grocery store and pick it up, pre-packaged.
Tomatoes no longer taste like tomatoes, or grow like tomatoes. This is probably why I can't stand eating tomatoes unless I pick them myself. And I have always been like that. Maybe it was subconscious understanding that tomatoes from the store just weren't as good as real tomatoes.
We want to simplify the workings of the world so we can control it.
Well, here's the news. You can't. life isn't that simple. And no matter how much we want to force the planet to do what we want, it won't work. We just break things. Something may have the right arrangement of elements, but does that really mean that it's good? Life goes so far beyond that.
The common method of growing food destroys the very spirit in food. And maybe that's why the 3-year-old strawberry plants growing in a dry section of our front yard have so much more flavor. They are not broken, and they are cared for.