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.