News feed shared link on FB from Sandra/New York's Nutropical.com

And you think that's bad about strawberries, think again if you thought you bought organic

Because if they come from California, the likely aren't. As the linked NYT article points out, plant stock is pretty much 100% non-organic and later after fruiting is allowed to be sold as organic.

This update as recent as the beginning of this month, shows they are working hard with the state to try and make changes - but not yet!

Thanks for linking to this great list, a simple to the point one that's great to share.

I do the best I can and do buy only organic berries. I no longer think of them as a staple, but buy them as a treat given the higher prices.

Article: Even Organic Strawberries Are Grown With Toxic Fumigants

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/us/farmers-seek-to-raise-standards-for-berries.html?_r=2&ref=sanfranciscobayarea&

 
WOW! What an eye opener, thanks for posting Sandy. Most of that I knew, but not all..excellent

reminder about eating the right stuff. And, I am with barb, I like to be about to pronounce the ingredients in my food and know what they are!!!

 
I love the article but I can't give up bread.....I have given up everything else.

Bread is my last stance, so to speak.....

 
no need to give up bread...

.... I think in many instances these types of claims are a bit over blown. There will always be some toxicity associated with pretty much everything. Mushrooms have a high level of mutagenic substances, yet you don't see people who eat a lot of mushrooms develop cancer - our bodies have a very efficient way of dealing with a lot of stuff, and that includes pesticides.

If you want to read a very interesting article by a scientist who is probably the greatest authority in the world on mutagenic effects on cells I offer this link to the work of Bruce Ames, who is still a faculty member at Berkeley, although now getting a bit old.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ppps/pdf/ma_reding_annex2.pdf

 
Thank you, Sally, for that bit of WISDOM. I don't think anyone, me included, would argue...

...that ridding our food of preservatives, pesticides and other non-natural substances wouldn't be a good idea, but the first thing I think of when I read this stuff is, yeah, ok, what axe are they grinding?

I saw my elderly father get BUSHELS of junk mail, year after year, from the latest diet/nutrition/wellness guru trying to scare him into buying the latest supplement, extract, balm, powder or tin-foil hat.

YES, some of it has merit, but using fear to sell all manner of stuff to people (including political philosophies), is so rampant in our culture.

I get tired of it, frankly.

Michael

 
Indeed.... (more inside)

and all the endless fads of whole grain, no- gluten (I don't direct this to people with REAL gluten allergies, but for the crowd who believes in things like "cleansing" and think that somehow gluten is dirty by default.. smileys/smile.gif

the other day I saw this woman (maybe in her mid thirties) shopping at the store with her daughter - I never had kids so it's hard for me to tell a kid's age, but I'd say around 10 years old.
She was in the organic aisle at the same time as me, we checked out together and I noticed her cart was packed with what nowadays is considered "very healthy' -

I go to the parking lot, drive away, all of a sudden I noticed she is in the red light next to my car. TEXTING AND DRIVING. You would imagine she would stop when the light turned green? Not really - she drove like so many drivers do these days, head moving down then up, car moving as if driven by a drunk driver. The daughter right next to her. This woman feels great because she buys organic, but has no problem putting herself, her daughter and other drivers at risk because she needs to finish that silly text message.

I rather munch on bread... smileys/smile.gif

Well, I moved from apples to oranges, but it was quite "interesting" to witness that. Two sides of a strange coin.

 
The one I love is the story of the lady who crushes her cigarette butt into the...

...asphalt of the parking lot at the market. She's on her way in -to complain to the manager about alar on the apples.

Hmmmm.

Michael

 
Thank you, Sally, for a dose of common sense.

I particularly liked the comment about how different modern bread is nowadays - too right! Now we don't have our teeth ground away by the bits of rock from the grinding stones!

 
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