Our food chain really IS an absolute MESS! I Stand With RFK! (Jr.)
Putting in a PLUG here for our Monthly Garden Thread. Grow Your Own! Come Join Us! Save Yourselves, LOL!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4314384/posts
For anyone that cares, the most pesticide-filled veggies and fruits that you normally buy at the grocery store are:
Strawberries
Spinach
Kale & Collards
Grapes
Peaches
Pears
Nectarines
Apples
Bell & Hot Peppers
Cherries
Blueberries
Green Beans
The ‘cleanest’ vegetables that you can buy are also at this link:
https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/full-list.php
Full Disclosure: My Piggly Wiggly had the Driscolls-brand Strawberries on sale (Buy 1 Get 1 FREE) a few weeks back. That is the brand this woman is fighting with. They were the most luscious, DELICIOUS, red-to-the-core actually-tasted-like-strawberries I have had in a very long time, other than out of my own Strawberry Patch. So, a few bugs died due to pesticide use. I hate bugs. What do they contribute? Other than Pollinators and ‘Good Bugs’ that are predators to the Bad Bugs, what do they deliver to Mankind? ;)
Years ago, I printed the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists, taped them onto my refrigerator. Have been following that list. Organic is really not much more $$$.