Tag: pesticides
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What’s On Our Favorite Food: BLUEBERRIES
We LOVE a fresh ripe blueberry. We LOVE a fresh frozen blueberry. We LOVE warm from the oven blueberry baked into something good. WE DO NOT LOVE that there are 52 Pesticide Residues Found by the USDA Pesticide Data Program. Can you believe it? A blueberry can have 52 pesticides. My youngest is highly sensitive…
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Imagine a world without pesticides
Can we imagine a day, a year or a world without using hazardous chemicals to grow our food? I can. And we must. Today, people are continuing to stand up for the future of food and farming, speaking out against harmful pesticide use in Hawaii, Iowa, California and beyond even when it draws the ire…
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The Problem with Pesticides
Pesticides Pesticides are the only toxic substances released intentionally into our environment to kill living things. This includes substances that kill weeds (herbicides), insects (insecticides), fungus (fungicides), rodents (rodenticides), and others. The use of toxic pesticides to manage pest problems has become a common practice around the world. Pesticides are used almost everywhere — not…
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How to avoid the ORGANIC lie.
When you load up your shopping cart with organic leafy greens, are you getting more nutritional benefits than consumers on the other side of the produce aisle? More than half of Americans now believe organic food is healthier than conventionally-grown produce, even though there is no evidence to prove it. Fifty-five percent of Americans said…
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Tree-killing herbicide pulled from market
Dupont’s new systemic herbicides, designed to keep turf grass free of troublesome weeds, seem to pose little direct danger to human health. But it turns out they do kill trees. After receiving more than 7,000 reports of damaged or killed trees in states throughout the midwest, last week EPA ordered Dupont to immediately “halt the…