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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The evidence is that if there is actually any risk from the tiny bits of pesticides they find, it's dwarfed by the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables. I worry that people are being scared off of eating nutritious food for no reason.

From: https://cuttothechasenutrition.com/buy-the-dirty-dozen-dont-buy-into-it/

"Are YOU at risk? Are Your Kids?

Short answer: NO, ... to assess your own safety, and that of your family, you must know how toxic a pesticide is for the amount you’re eating.

The Alliance for Food and Farming is a non-profit organization that represents both organic AND conventional farmers of fruits and vegetables. Their Safe Fruits and Veggies Calculator is a fabulous tool that calculates how many servings of a fruit or vegetable you’d have to eat in 1 day to reach maximum allowable pesticide residue ever recorded for that food. They have calculations for men,  women, teens, and children.

Let’s take strawberries and apply the calculations to young kids (average weight = 45 lb.):

Strawberries: 181 servings (1/2 cup is a serving) in ONE DAY “without any effect, even if the strawberries have the highest pesticide residue recorded for strawberries by USDA.” An adult woman? Figure 453 servings (226 cups!) before you’d reach that level."
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This calculation makes no sense to me. And why does it have to be eaten in one sitting to be harmful? Also, what if the usda limits are wrong, which they probably are?

This is a group that is promoting the consumption of fruit and vegetables so I wouldn’t necessarily trust them over an independent source.

I agree we should all eat fruits and vegetables but I think we should be seriously questioning all these pesticides. Let’s not hide the problem if there is one.[/quote]

[b]They have to be eaten in one sitting because their effects aren’t cumulative. You can eat a tiny bit every day for the rest of your life and your body will break the pesticide down and eliminate it. It needs to be in a large single dose to be toxic. [/b]That’s why the EPA has acceptable levels.

Also, organic farming uses toxic pesticides as well. Unless you grow your own, there’s no avoiding them. [/quote]

Problem is, that’s not definitively true - it’s just hard to prove the long term effect. Don’t you think it takes a toll on the liver and kidneys to break down poison every single day? [b]EPA’s acceptable levels are influenced by lobbies and interests.[/b]

To your second point, the fact that organic produce contains pesticides (not as many) is not a reason to buy conventional. It’s yet another reason to cut back on pesticides. If they are harmful, then you want as few as possible.[/quote]

Tin foil hat alert![/quote]

Yeah sorry but if you don’t believe lobbyists exist and affect regulations, then what separates us is not a tin foil hat, it’s a large pile of sand under which you’ve placed your head.[/quote]

+1  How can someone in DC not know this. [/quote]

+2!  Of course lobbyists impact our food regulation in a major way.[/quote]

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