Posted on 08/13/2009 10:31:27 AM PDT by Fawn
Shoppers face an array of choices on fruit but little guidance on which type to pick. Expensive organic? Pricey farmers' market? Cheap ones from the grocery store?
Cost is certainly important. But there are essential numbers that go beyond the price tag.
Which contain the highest levels of pesticides?
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Yeah, there’s crap on most produce too.
Best to be safe and make your own peach brandy. Get the taste with the pesticides distilled out.
All 50 at the same time? No. What they mean is different pesticides are used in different parts of the country/world.
And notice when they said they were within EPA levels EXECPT for some imported fruit. What did we learn from the China baby milk and lead paint on toys problems? US healty and safety laws DON’T extend beyond the US border. Purchase foriegn foods and you really don’t know what you are putting in your body.
The moral of the story? Buy food grown in Americ, wash it well before consuming it, and you should be fine.
“Best to be safe and make your own peach brandy. Get the taste with the pesticides distilled out.”
Exactly, Bob!
I’ve grown everything ‘organically’ for...forever and it’s not hard to do; just basically do what your grandparents or great grandparents did. It is NOT rocket science, though some would want you to think so to jack up their prices and make you buy things for your garden that you don’t need.
I can see where Big Ag uses so many chemicals because consumers are brainwashed into thinking all food must be PERFECT, but a bruised or spotted peach can still be eaten; just cut that part out, LOL!
I HATE that hippies, envirowackos, Gig Government and PETA freaks have co-opted so many things that once made me proud to be a ‘Conserve’-ative! ;)
P.S. The only thing missing in this article is some bra-less hippy chick with a kid suckling her breast crying and sobbing, “It’s for the CHILDREN!” ;)
>> Holy Crap!
>> Yeah, there’s crap on most produce too.
...and if it’s leafy green and organic, a lot of it is “holey”, too.
>> The only thing missing in this article is some bra-less hippy chick
TTIUWP
There needs to be another labeling along with “organic”. There is no way, beside pure luck, that you can grow peaches in the Northeast without some sort of fungicide and/or pesticide. Last year I sold some peaches as “semi-organic”. No fungicide touched the actual fruit, but it wouldn’t pass as “organic”. This year the bugs got to them, so I guess I’ll need a pesticide next year. Modern science is great when used with discretion.
I could eat a peach all day.
Hey, fellow Crunchy Con. Whad up, sis?
“Modern science is great when used with discretion.”
I have two peach trees (’Reliance’) and the past few years they have had bad cases of Peach Leaf Curl. A pray with copper this spring killed it all, and that stuff never touches the peaches because they come on later.
I’ve only got about 2 dozen on the two trees this season, but that was due to the chilly evenings we had all summer long (50’s and 40’s some nights!) and that’s beyond my control.
Cherries were a bumper crop, and plums are coming along nicely, but also a smaller set due to the weather.
Pesticides make for an abundant crop when in many cases there would be no crop at all.
With a wold population of over 6 billion, modern agricultural techniques must produce consistently abundant harvests.
Environmentalists’ policies are beginning to take their toll on American agriculture through “endangered species,” legislation and unwarranted pesticide restrictions.
Pesticides in amrica are notable both for their safety and short (in most cased) residual toxicity.
They are very bad for you if you look down and count 6 legs, but relatively benign if you look down and find you are blessed with 2.
The Elimination of “Safe” pesticides is another attack on American food supplies.
The banning of DDT-—am extremely safe pesticide has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths resulting from malaria alone, yearly.
Like comparing apples and alar.
Someone has it in for peach growers.
"environmental group" should be an Anthropogenic Global Warning label that a load of BS is coming.
As for the Tribune's tests, get back to me when they have 'defuzzed' the peaches before testing.
Bottom line, wash and/or peel fruits and veggies before eating or cooking.
Pesticides are ON not IN fruit. You have to wash them before eating. (DUH). Consumer Reports magazine recommends a bath with one drop of Dawn dish liquid for your fresh produce, then rinse.
I know you have to wash all produce. I’ve literally seen feces on fruit at a flea market in South Florida.
And if you put in a couple drops of Clorox, then they keep much longer.
“US healty and safety laws DON’T extend beyond the US border. Purchase foreign foods and you really don’t know what you are putting in your body.”
I always wonder how much lead is in stoneware plates/cups made in China. Yesterday I was shopping for a new set of everday dishes in Macy’s. “Made in China” is stamped on most of them.
“I’ve literally seen feces on fruit at a flea market in South Florida.”
From the fleas? lol
(couldn’t resist)
From the ‘flees’.
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