Originally Posted by
Jughed
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...
I haven't been in the US in a long time, but in Mexico City, your extended neighborhood, you could eat a grape with a fork and a knife, those things were gigantic! The same held true for strawberries. But it could be due to the climate (lots of sun) and the varieties.