in toil you shall eat

"cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life" Genesis 3:17

I was biking to the store and saw this statue on a lawn. At the correct angle it looked like the machine parts stickman was pulling a sunflower out of the earth with his chain link rope. It immediately reminded me of the verse in the first book of the bible where God tells man that he will have to work hard for his food after taking the apple from the serpant in the garden of eden. This quote and the picture are also ironic to me in that we have tried to make the toil of our food easier with our factory farms, and complicated farm machinery. The irony is that our farming methods are polluting the soil, the air, the water, and our own bodies, as well as ruining the homes of many animals.

Maybe we should all toil a little more for our food, rather than ruining it.