How Safe is Our Produce?, page 1

Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe
Yikes.
Not sure if there was a problem there or the ant was just dizzy with delight.
I do know that I will NOT eat California strawberries, due to the toxic new chemical being used on them.

I found this site that lists all the possible pesticides on Plums...or any other food listed.
whatsonmyfood.org...

I think peeling them removes most of the contaminants.

Oh yeah I know,.
another concern for me is that wonder radiation rain on the west coast..
Yummy

reply posted on 18-8-2011 @ 09:17 PM by Lil Drummerboy

Originally posted by mamabeth
reply to post by Lil Drummerboy

The problem is the ants were not all over the fruit like they
should.One even looked like it was staggering around in circles!

why would you go to the trouble of canning frozen produce,.?
seems kinda umm silly
If your gonna do that why not just buy it in the store? same chemicals

reply posted on 18-8-2011 @ 09:54 PM by mamabeth

reply to post by Lil Drummerboy

I have been making jams and jellies out of the frozen fruits.
I don't buy jelly anymore,I make mine now.

reply posted on 19-8-2011 @ 01:45 PM by FortAnthem

First thing I thought when I read this was; pesticides left over on the skins.

I don't know how well you washed the skins before you peeled them. I'll take your word that you did a good job. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the pesticides penetrated the skins got inside of the fruit. The stuff they do to our foods these days is REALLY scary. Of course, its all for our protection right?

This is another reason to think about going with organicly farmed fruits and veggies. Supposedly they don't use pesticides on their produce.

reply posted on 27-9-2011 @ 03:43 PM by Muckster

reply to post by mamabeth

Modern food production is basically poisoning us... pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers, GM, growth hormones, Irradiated food etc... Is it any wonder that cancer rates in the developed world are through the roof?!?!

I started growing my own food a few years ago and it’s the best thing ever... the seeds I buy are from a website that only sells old school heirloom seeds; so no horrible F1 hybrid frankenseeds. We also keep chickens so we get nice fresh eggs and the occasional meat.

Unfortunately we only have a small garden so we have to supplement what we grow with supermarket food...

The one thing I have noticed is this...

When I cook I always throw the veg peelings, and top n tails, onto the compost heap... a couple of years ago I was cooking with the last of our home grown carrots and, as usual, chucked the tops and tails onto the compost. About a week later we went to the supermarket for our usual shopping and purchased some more carrots (due to our garden ones finishing) and, as usual, I chucked the tops and tails onto the compost. When I opened the compost bin lid I could still see my carrots from the week before... they had already started to rot down and were covered in the usual little insects scurrying around. I then tipped the new peelings, and carrot tops, on top of the old. While doing this, one of the carrot tops hit the edge of the compost bin and landed outside the bin (between my bin and garden fence) I couldn’t quite reach it so just left it there to rot down.

A few weeks later I was emptying waste into the compost; I happened to look down and noticed that the carrot top was still sitting there, in between my fence and the bin, looking as fresh as the day I dropped it there!!
I wondered if it was decaying slowly because it was not in the compost bin so, using a garden trail, I rummaged around inside the bin to see if I could find the others. They were there... looking the same as the day a chucked them away.

That little piece of carrot top lasted for just over a year... decaying at an extremely slow rate... What on earth do they do to food to make it defy nature in this way??? And how is our body supposed to process food of this kind

I'm sure there is a bespectacled man in a white coat waiting to tell me the science behind it and how it is "perfectly safe for human consumption" but you know what... I think I’ll stick to organic veg thanks!

Peace

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