Antipesticide camaigns

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With the recent studies linking pesticides to bee decline and now bird declines there are many campaigns to ban them. My thoughts are that maybe there should be adds suggesting people accept imperfect looking fruit and vegetable products. If people didn't expect perfect products maybe that would be a better approach. What do you all think?
 
While I agree with your thinking, Hollywood and Madison Ave will never let it happen, especially at the current prices for fresh produce. I usually get an apple for lunch and I usually buy the cheapest one in the store at anywhere from $1.29 to $2.29 per pound and have seen "organic" as high as almost $4.00 per pound. They are perfect and one must question if they are indeed organic. Plus I would never pay the price.
 
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Neither I nor anyone else I know are in favor of eating pesticides. We would all choose to live in the garden of Eden. But, allow me to express a different way of looking at this.

I watched my dad raise peaches, apples and plums for years when I was a kid. He sprayed them every week and we had the most delicious fruit I ever tasted. I also remember a few years when his business got too busy for him to keep up with the spraying. Let me tell you--it wasn't an issue of spots, as Sheryl Crow would have us believe. By the time they were ripe, the bugs and worms already had their way. There wasn't enough for one bowl of cobbler, let alone canning, selling, giving away, etc.

Most of the pesticides farmers use today they use to ensure that they have fruit to bring to market. And that on the largest scale in the history of man. Only a small part of what gets sprayed goes to reduction of sun spots, firmness, color, and attractiveness.

I'm for limiting the bees and birds affected. But, realize that getting rid of pesticides creates a far greater problem than spots. There has to be some middle ground.
 
I think most people don't really understand what USDA Organic actually means. It's not much. Pretty much the only thing you can still count on with that label is that there are no GMO ingredients. If only people would wake up to the fact that local food, being able to walk through the fields where your food is grown, is far better than any label.
 
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I think most people don't really understand what USDA Organic actually means. It's not much. Pretty much the only thing you can still count on with that label is that there are no GMO ingredients. If only people would wake up to the fact that local food, being able to walk through the fields where your food is grown, is far better than any label.
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I agree 100%! I just had spaghetti for supper. the sauce was made yesterday from tomatoes that were picked 50 feet from my back door. Deliseoso!
 
I'd love to see this in the states... Our neighbor picks up produce from the grocery store down the street that they are throwing out to feed to their live stock. They can not bring themselves to feed it all to animals, so they let select families who are low income come to their garage. I've heard comments from people who have lived in mexico say "This is just like the produce from home sold in the stores"... Sure there are blemishes, or a prepackaged bag of oranges with one per 3lbs that is mushy, but it's disgusting that there is such waste.
 
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Selling Organic products indicates you are using OMRI listed pesticides. OMRI listed fungicides are mostly crap, but spinosid is a fantastic product that will help prevent coddling moth in apples.
 
copper is a omri listed fungicide, and that is rei 24hr. i think its only on there because the alternatives for bactericide are worse. but know your organic and regular tomatoes are both getting a copper bath every 3 days regardless.
 
I recall hearing that to be labeled "organic"...it just had to have been a certain amount of time since the last batch of spraying was done....can't recall the timeframe but i remember it not being very long....like 2-3 weeks before harvest.
 
Too many people don't care.

Organic apple: $2 small, spotty, dull colored

Non organic: 50¢, massive, bright red.

This is an easy decision for what I think is 90% of Americans.


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