Originally Posted by
Iride01
Sad but true, lead and other chemicals can be found in produce at the grocery store. Just not at the levels that are considered immediately dangerous when consumed. And this applies to organic labeled produce too. Even your homegrown foods from your own garden might have such.
Maybe Consumer Reports should be testing produce too. But I say that with sarcasm. As too many wouldn't understand the insignificance of the amounts of those chemicals listed.
I've worked on the bulk chemical production side for fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, weed killers...
You don't want to know what is sprayed on your fresh produce in the USA. Chemicals no other country allows in any dose.
Full on chemical plants make these products, many worse than the industrial chemical plants I visit (ones that we hear about all the time), nasty nasty places. Stuff is made in bulk - at the point where zero human exposure is considered safe - then watered down and sprayed on our crops.
Why? Money.
I live in farm country - crop dusters flying over the farms for the entire growing season - and I know what kind of crap they are spraying. Nasty nasty nasty nasty stuff.
Plants = healthy, yes - I agree 10000%. Genetically modified plants sprayed with some of the most toxic chemicals on the planet? Not so much!!
How do any of us know if what we are consuming is free from all of these chemicals? Unless we grow it ourselves...