We are a people who crave convenience. Sunday after Sunday we stand around the hay bale hoping to get enough to fill us for another week. We leave the bale and wander back to our homes, to our jobs and carry out all the responsibilities we have, and slowly weaken because a once a week feeding is not enough. We often long to get back to the hay bale. We ponder what we ate last Sunday, hoping to get even more nourishment from food that's already been spent, while all the time, we ignore the green grass that grows all around us.
Hay bales are good.
They are even necessary. But, they are only good and necessary in the absence of better grazing. You will never find the nutrients in that which is processed the way you will find them in that which is fresh. If all you ever fed cows was hay from a hay bale, they would eventually die. They would literally starve to death.