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Rotten to the Core?
It’s fall in Minnesota. The leaves are turning colors, and it’s time to go apple picking, right?
Daniel Gross in an article available at Slate.com argues that the Fall apple-picking tradition is more idiotic than idyllic and represents American tendencies to esteem overconsumption and balk at nature that’s a little too natural.
In my opinion, that may be a little harsh and condemning. It may be true that when we go out to buy a half-bushel for our house or floor, we may not eat it all, but of all battles to choose, why apple-picking? What do you think?
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