Anti-Evolution
It is spring and it is time to start planting my garden. When I was digging up weeds to prepare the ground for planting a few days ago, I could not help but doubt if we human beings are a superior species. I was removing bags and bags of fast growing, healthy and extremely easy to grow plants only to replace them with slow growing, finicky, and delicate to grow plants. Am I missing something? Other plant-eating animal would happily eat all that we call weeds. That is why they do not have to farm and just wander around. When they are hungry, they look down and voila dinner. We, the supposedly far smarter higher being, have to labour against everything that is natural to barely feed ourselves. That does not sound very smart to me. Making things worst is that all the plants we like to grow and eat once grew easily like weeds. We put all our smarts into making them ridiculously difficult to grow, compare to weeds. We end up babying every little sprout from seedlings to fruit, feed them, house them, water them, cure them of diseases, keep bugs off them, and some even sing to them. Sure, the result is some very tasty vegetables, but if we had not developed such taste our lives would be so much easier. Evolution may not have been such a great thing after all.
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