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Purchase your fruits and vegetables at the West End Farmers Market and never worry about pesticides in your food! Our farmers practice sustainable agricultural techniques. They may not be able to afford the USDA "Organic" label, but they farm as close to those standards as possible. Our apples and celery are safe!
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit working to protect public health and the environment, published their 2011 Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce. This year apples and celery top the list of items they recommend people purchase organically to reduce the risk of dangerous intakes of pesticides. The EWG measured the pesticides after powerwashing the produce and peeling it as a normal cook might do. Consider this: a pesticide is a lethal dose of poison meant to kill a living thing. If it kills a bug it may harm you as well. It can be hard to make the leap from spraying for bugs to dangerous to humans - especially since most of us treat our homes for ants and cockroaches. But would you ever spray an insecticide on your hand, rinse your hand with water and then lick your hand? Sounds yucky doesn't it? There would be residue, you would ingest it. Pesticides are made to stay on the fruit even if it rains. They don't wash off with water. Read the EWG article. It is informative and it gives you a list of produce that pesticide use does not affect, like sweet potatoes and onions, as well as a list of fifteen produce items that you should purchase at your farmers market or organic in the store. See you at the market! 8/7/2012 12:53:25 am
Nice description about that the foods agencies found to have Dangerous Levels of Pesticides. I think people should like it . I like this information too and also i am waiting for some new updates. 8/28/2012 09:58:15 pm
really a commercial food contain high level of pesticides it effect our body and harm it. so we make sure our food is organic. 8/29/2012 04:06:50 am
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