What are your thoughts when you hack at a weed with a hoe? How about when you plunge a weeder into the soil and penetrate the tape root of a plant you don’t appreciate. Have you ever paused when you were about to grab a plant by the neck and yank it out of the soil it depends on for life? When you use a propane torch to cook and then scorch a solitary weed and hear the popping of the seeds that would otherwise provide future generations of that plant, how are you feeling? Have you ever stopped to think that these plants that you so fervently pursue and torture with Roundup are simply trying to survive—to survive and continue the lifeline of their existence?
I ask you, “Where’s the empathy?” . . . Not here . . . But sometimes . . . . . . .