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Spinach and Strawberries The Most Heavily Sparayed With Insectisides

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Just read in Time mag strawberries and spinach get more insecticide spray than any other plant in America. Eat up boys & girls!!
 
Just read in Time mag strawberries and spinach get more insecticide spray than any other plant in America. Eat up boys & girls!!

That must be why they taste so good!
 
Just read in Time mag strawberries and spinach get more insecticide spray than any other plant in America. Eat up boys & girls!!

**** yeah. Give me some strawberries.

I'll eat 'em.
 
Spinach/Strawberry privilege is real!!!
 
If they werent sprayed with bug spray you'd be eating a bug instead of a strawberry. :2razz:
 
Just read in Time mag strawberries and spinach get more insecticide spray than any other plant in America. Eat up boys & girls!!

A little more detail would be nice otherwise this is just a scare tactic.
Strawberries + Pesticides: How California's Farmers are Looking for New Solutions - Modern Farmer
These pesticides then drift into schools. According to a 2014 California Department of Public Health (DPH) study, Monterey County tops the charts in heavy pesticide use near schools. In a report by the Pesticide Action Network (PANNA), scientists from the network gathered research linking pesticide exposure to cancer, disrupted brain development, birth defects, early puberty obesity, diabetes, obesity, and asthma. “Children today are sicker than they were a generation ago,” the report says. “Our assessment of the latest science leaves little room for doubt: pesticides are one key driver of this sobering trend.”
 
I am pretty sure that the story here is that the government took away soil fumigants because they might cause cancer in fieldworkers or perhaps locals, so now farmers have to use stuff that is actually on the food thus is an issue for everyone who eats it. The main strawberry fumigant was removed in 2012, more pesticides on berries is exactly what the critics said would happen.

I lived in the Monterey area, used to drive by the tented fields often.
 
I wonder how many druggies are health food nuts also?
 
Bumble bees are now on the endangered species list due to in part man's developing from what was once habitats of the bees. This could be a huge impact on the food supply.
 
Bumble bees are now on the endangered species list due to in part man's developing from what was once habitats of the bees. This could be a huge impact on the food supply.

One of a hundred varieties of bumble bee is on the list.

I don't eat strawberries much. To me, a packet of those is as dangerous as a box of assorted chocolates with no decoder key to let you know which one is which. One might be divine and lure you to a second one that turns you inside out.
 
Side note: I read the other day that we lost 44% of the bees last year, as in they either died or vanished...that sounds like a lot.
 
Side note: I read the other day that we lost 44% of the bees last year, as in they either died or vanished...that sounds like a lot.

Pesticides account for some bee losses but not all

Beekeepers tell me that there is a mite that is doing most of the damage
 
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