Congratulations, Consumer Reports. You found the dirty secret to the 'organic' foods label.
Pesticides presented little to worry about in nearly two-thirds of the foods, including nearly all of the organic ones.
They still seem better in that regard than conventional ones.
The lable needs to be stricter in some senses sure, but there are organic pesticides and that word is use for anything you use to kill pests. Neem oil and diatomaceous earth are some examples I'd wager a lot of organic gardeners know about. Most times your organic pesticides aren't are harmful as synthetic either. Pestacide free is a great way to pay more per pound of produce and have a higher risk getting a strange disease from insects, since they'll eat anything they can see and pass all that on to you.
But there was good news, too. Pesticides presented little to worry about in nearly two-thirds of the foods, including nearly all of the organic ones. Also encouraging: the largest risks are caused by just a few pesticides, concentrated in a handful of foods, grown on a small fraction of US farmland. “That makes it easier to identify the problems and develop targeted solutions,” Rogers says
Oh great. I've eaten my body weight in frozen blueberries. -_-
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