Strawberry Season is Worth the Wait

Strawberries

Strawberries…

I love them when they are picked still warm from the vine in the early summer.

But, today there is a stack of strawberries at my local grocery and I am not tempted…

The list of toxic chemicals to facilitate the growth of those hard tasteless red buds:

• methyl iodide — a carcinogenic substance so dangerous that scientists use it to induce cancer in tissue cultures
• sulfuryl fluoride — a fumigant that is a greenhouse gas 4,800 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
• Fumigants are used to sterilize the soils, which kill the microorganisms that convert dead plant matter into hummus and transfer micronutrients into crops, etc.

I prefer to have strawberries once a year to the tasteless abundant strawberries grown in dead soils laden with carcinogenic chemicals packaged in plastic and shipped across the country.