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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I never eat processed foods.

What do you eat for breakfast?

[Anonymous]

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

hows that?

[Anonymous]

My understanding is that the chemical in question is neither a pesticide nor an herbicide. It is an applied to plants to keep their stems short so that they don’t fall over and are easier to harvest.

This is a tough one for me since I love oatmeal and try to eat it several times a week. I will probably keep eating it but then again, I am 45 and well past reproductive age. I was thinking we would switch to organic as soon as I’m out of my current stock, but then, it seems that organic products are not necessarily free of this chemical either. Thanks, Canada.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

hows that?

They’re just organic pesticides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

hows that?

DP, but this could be drift from nearby fields, but also some chemicals are approved in “certified organic” farming.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I'd rather eat pesticides than bugs.

[Anonymous]

Pesticides are mainly to prevent bugs from eating plants, not to keep bugs out of the product.

[Anonymous]

No information on what is a safe level to consume.

[Anonymous]

I'm already full of microplastics so I'm pretty certain these pesticides can't do much of anything anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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)

And an organic farmer I was listening too said he feels that someone of these will probably eventually be considered dangerous in some way because the rules are always changing. He said he was an organic farmer because the profit margins are much higher but he does not worry about what he eats.

[Anonymous]

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

although a certain amount of "pests" are allowed in food also, because there's no way to avoid it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

hows that?

How do you not know this? The government decides which chemicals can be used by organic farmers. Same way that cage free chickens can pretty much live in a cage (as long as there is access to outside air)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I'd rather eat pesticides than bugs.

Bugs are probably better for you. Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I'd rather eat pesticides than bugs.

Bugs are probably better for you. Just saying.

+100 bugs are safer! Pesticides stay inside you forever while bugs you just digest.

[Anonymous]

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

Rarity of weevils… is lovely writing.
I don’t agree with you, but I’ll read all your writing.