Pesticides found in Cheerios and Quaker products, will you still eat them?

[Anonymous]

Wasn't sure if this should go in food or health...

Cheerios and Quaker products both contain pesticides! This is incredible. I'm wondering if wheat products have the same issue like shredded wheat. Here I am thinking these are healthy options perhaps they are not as healthy as I once thought. Will you keep eating these products?



https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/02/16/what-is-chlormequat-chemical-pesticide-cheerios-quaker-oats/72627355007/

[Anonymous]

Yes, everything contains pesticides.

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

This is not "incredible." Yes, I have no problem eating them.

[Anonymous]

1) the story in the link isn’t even about pesticides
2) where did you imagine the pesticides and herbicides go when the plants are harvested?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, everything contains pesticides.

+1 although I don’t put much weight on the word organic, I know the lack of the use of the word means ‘pesticides and fertilizers used’.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure there are also pesticides in the Doritos and Cheetos you eat too.

[Anonymous]

There are pesticides in that “organic” food too!

[Anonymous]

No, I never eat processed foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I never eat processed foods.

Never? Do you have children? What do you eat then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) the story in the link isn’t even about pesticides
2) where did you imagine the pesticides and herbicides go when the plants are harvested?

NP. Yes, the linked article is about a pesticide that is not permitted in the US but is allowed in imported wheat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are pesticides in that “organic” food too!

+1
People always seem to overlook this inconvenient fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are pesticides in that “organic” food too!

How? Blow over from neighboring farms?

[Anonymous]

A limited list of pesticides can be used in organic food production only after all other levels (A and B) have failed and, if used, must be reported and labeled. So look for "pesticide free" on the label if the allowed organic pesticides concern you.

Level C, § 205.206 (e), is the application of allowed materials, specifically listed as approved, which are limited to generally:

• Biological pesticides (living, like the fungi Beauveria bassiana or a biproduct of the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis)
• Botanical pesticides (plant based products like neem and garlic oil -- botanicals may only be approved as a last resort)
• Dormant and summer oils
• Fatty acid insecticidal soaps
• Minerals (e.g. diatomaceous earth, and kaolin clay)
• Pheromones (technically not pesticides since they don't kill, but regulated as such anyway)

[Anonymous]

I would rather have trace pesticides than actual pests. Really appreciate the rarity of weevils in my morning cereal.