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The Most Pesticide-Contaminated Produce Is …
As Maci, Mason, and Bentley race up the baby-name chart, the apple races up the pesticide-ridden-produce chart, knocking celery off its not particularly coveted throne.
The organization behind these lists recommends buying organic versions of The Dirty Dozen, while The Clean 15 are more or less good to go. ("Top 10 Most/Least Contaminated Produce" didn't have that playful ring to it, apparently.)
This on the heels of the news about how apples and their peels make you skinny and ripped. They're the Barry Bonds of the food world: strong but messed up! [Via]
Great, now that celery has been pushed out of the number one spot I'll start buying it guilt-free! Because if you didn't place first you didn't place at all, right?
This is the number one reason why I want to go organic. However, the number one reason why I haven't is because I can't afford to, so.
@whoaisme Yep. Yesterday I almost made the mistake of buying organic limes for $1.29 each before I realized there were regular limes available 3 for $1.00
I'll just replace everything from column A with its counterpart in column B.
Hello to the all-American onion pie a la mode! Mashed cantaloupe! I could eat an avocado for hours!
Maybe it's the stupid fucking pesticides that make my stomach hurt from eating apples!!!
If I eat an apple, organic or not, by itself while I'm hungry, it makes me stomach-hurtingly hungrier. If I chase a li'l sandwich with an apple, I'm golden.
Of course the issue isn't which has the most, but whether any have enough to matter, especially after you wash them (note that most of the clean 15 have peels (that get peeled) or rind or whatever.
I would say about 30 percent of my time in the grocery store these days is spent either feeling like a bad person for eating meat, or being paranoid that I'm killing myself with produce. The answer is clearly to adopt an all Ho Ho diet.
@katerrific Maybe like, Ho Hos and Kraft Mac 'n Cheese, just for a little balance?
Ok, now all we have to do is compare this list to ones for fertilizer usage, carbon footprint, habitat loss, and working conditions.
@Butterscotch Stalin And then cross-reference with nutritional info. In the end, I'm pretty sure all we can eat is lentils, but those aren't on either list. What does it all mean?
But what if I'm too lazy and/or impatient not to eat the strawberries straight out of the container?
This doesn't 100% line up but if you are into WHIMSICAL THINGS, this is a cheat sheet of anthropomorphic foods by Heidi Kenney, suitable for printing and then laminating on the laminating machine that you probably shouldn't have bought.
http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/05/26/do-you-know-the-dirty-dozen
It is amazing that we let our government put chemicals into our food supply and not question it. They are poisoning us, why do you think so many people are getting cancer, children are being born with autism at such a high rate, it is because of the pesticides. We are being poisoned in our water AND food supply. the government gives money to big farming corporations that spray all your food with pesticides and in reality you are paying for it because it comes out of your tax money. RON PAUL 2012 http://www.freeronpaul.com