Oct 17 2009
So Few Edible Greens
I walk outside and there is so much green foliage, even this time of year in Florida. Yet so very little of it is suitable for making a salad with. Why is that? Don’t look to Intelligent Design for an answer. Doesn’t seem too bright to me to populate a planet with your chosen species, and then make food scarcer than it could be. Evolutionary theory, on th other had, provides a better answer. It is usually not in a plant’s favor to be edible. So most do their darnedest to avoid it. (I mean, the progeny of successful plants have avoided death by consumption.)
We humans have struggled and “competed” with other species from the get-go. This ain’t no garden of easy eating. We have (or at least had) to work for our food.
