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The Environmental Working Group just released its fifth Shopper's Guide to Pesticides, which shows you how to reduce your exposure to pesticides even when buying conventional produce. The redwhiteandgreen.com just published a cool post that shows you how much money you can save by adhering to the guide. <a href="http://theredwhiteandgreen.com/2009/03/18/how-much-can-you-save-by-eating-the-clean-15/ ">Click here</a> to read it.

Thanks for a good article to get the average consumer/concerned parent started. We may not be able to go out and protest to stop every company and person who pollutes are food and water but every little bit of information is a start. As a mother of 3 I appreciate the information on saving money while trying to give my children a gift of healthy eating.

This article is fine for the casual consumer. But for a citizen concerned about the systematic, institutionalized torture of factory-farm animals, the depletion of soil to the point of nonsustainability by modern industrial farming methods and untested genetically modified food crops that are foisted upon Americans without our knowledge or consent, and related problems such as colony collapse disorder in bees and other important issues, the philosophy goes much deeper than whether a fruit can be peeled or not. That discussion should be open and should include everyone. Sadly, it does not and our future may be doomed because of this lack of interest or understanding in the big agriculture picture.

the chemicals are in the soil as well ...duh
there for; the tree the vine the plant the root all draw from the contents of the soil so big deal about the oranges and avacodos,pinapples etc. being safe or safer...they clearly are not ! whats in the soil is also in all foods grown in that soil . Rain and moisture pushes these poison down in to the soil, because the dry soil acts like a sponge drawing in the new moisture and everything in it into the soil which sooner or later there after is drawn up into the root of the plant and or food source. [STOP THE POISENING OF OUR FOOD CHAIN]
ALL CORN 'ALL OF THE TIME' AND MOST OF THE TIME OUR GRAINS NOW HAVE MICOTOXINS IN THEM FROM MOLD AND FUNGUS from poor farming habits'like storing foods cylos',you need to know that it's in our ORGANIC OR REGULAR corn and grains either way.These micotoxins are killers to the human body; and you can't boil it out, you need to know how to clean it out of your bodys system once you ingested it. ...why ...(Read more of this comment)don't you all go to 'know the cause.com'
and find out where we really are on this issue of healthy food organic or other wise...heres hoping you seek wise counsol on the foods we eat !
and by the way....eat 'grass fed grass finished' labled meats only !!!
later ;
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I think this is great.