Modernity

I used to just wash the outside of my lettuce, because, you know the finished product I got at the store, the migrant workers we love to talk about, well they just came to the farm and a couple of days before harvest sprayed insecticide over the crop, and within the same work-and-run-week, I had my food at the store. I'm no farmer, but it makes sense to me that insects don't leave food alone just until the last few days. There is a community here, a long working relationship between my food and those who live close enough to care for it until I eat it.