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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

"Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."

Barbara Kingsolver

Mom, Self, Vegetables

Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.54, Faber & Faber