What really bothers me is the practice of desiccation. Shortly before harvest grain crops and legumes are sprayed with Roundup (glyphosate) so that the plants will die standing and begin to dry out before reaping.
I thought they dried out naturally but this speeds up the process I guess and reduces spoilage. It’s a sick thing to do and most oat products test high for glyphosate.
They spray potatoes to kill the plants before harvest. Once they are dead and dry, they begin to harvest.
Thats one thing I never did. Work on a potato farm back in the day shoveling spuds into the grader. Lots of my school friends did though. Now days, they wouldnt allow kids to do menial work like that. Its demeaning you know...HA!
But I did clean barn on our small farm and went out with my dad and brothers peeling popple pulpwood though. Three cents a stick. 300 sticks a day..7 days a week until the bark started to stick.
I’ve never heard of that before. Is that common?
That’s making “organic” food look better and better. I’ve generally not been willing to pay the premium for “organic,” but maybe it requires another look.
The reason I only buy organic steel cut oats.