[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by NotGolfer

I used to eat veggies right straight out of the dirt in the garden (ie radishes, carrots) while I was playing! YUM!! My dad used DDT on folage on our acreage and I ran barefoot much of the summer. Why fuss?? It's a 1st world problem.....

You go girl. You'll eat a peck of dirt before you die...heard that a few times.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by NotGolfer

I used to eat veggies right straight out of the dirt in the garden (ie radishes, carrots) while I was playing! YUM!! My dad used DDT on folage on our acreage and I ran barefoot much of the summer. Why fuss?? It's a 1st world problem.....

Yep! We had DDT strips hanging in the house killing flies and the old folk!!

[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

... You'll eat a peck of dirt before you die...heard that a few times.

My grandfather once complained about some sand in his food. He was told, "Everybody eats about a pound of sand in their lifetime."

He replied, "Yeah, but not all at once."

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

Most of us are in our dotage, and have made it this far eating a lot worse than todays pesticides, let alone other peoples hands touching the fruit.
I am with the 'just eat it brigade.'

Don't be picky, the things you worry about won't kill you. Wash it and eat it.
I like dewilson's solution - eat the sticker. It probably provides fibre.

[pheffner]

I share your pain, I've been having a devil of a time getting them off all my grapes.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by pheffner

I share your pain, I've been having a devil of a time getting them off all my grapes.

My antennae are up. This one will be very witty or very wild.

You heard it here first.

Welcome to the forum Mr. Heffner.

[SFSkol]

This is an overtly tacky thread. Sticker shock indeed.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by YoderChiropractic

You might already know this; but for those who don't:

If the number on the sticker starts with a 9, it is organic; beginning with a 3 or 4 means it is probably conventionally grown and if it begins with an 8 it is gmo.

Barbara
Yoder Chiropractic

Again - this is misleading.

If it is a 5-digit code that starts with a 9, it is CERTIFIED Organic. A 4-digit code starting with 3 or 4 MIGHT be organic, but it's not certified. It's officially "conventionally grown." If it's a 5-digit label beginning with an 8 then it is CERTIFIED GMO.

What this actually means:
There are some places where the 8 in front is not required by law. In that case, you won't know if it's GMO unless they have reason to specify. Organic doesn't mean pesticide-free. It means free of UNAPPROVED pesticides. There are pesticides that are approved.

In addition - as I said in my previous post - organic means the farmer at the farm where the piece of fruit came from, didn't use any unapproved pesticides. However, that does not mean that the farmer a mile away upwind didn't spray HIS stuff with unapproved pesticides. It doesn't mean the bees that pollinate the flora on the organic farm, have only pollinated using exclusively organic plants. It doesn't mean a squirrel didn't scurry around the non-organic neighbor's garden, grab some nuts, and plant them in the organic nut farm garden (ask me why I have lemon balm and a maple tree growing in my herb garden).

And conventionally farmed produce absolutely can be organic. It just means they never got the certification and therefore are not allowed to use that designation.


Summary: just because the label says something, doesn't mean the product is what you think it is. With the singular exception of GMO. If the sticker says it's GMO, then it is, with no special qualifications.

[jblum315]

a produce manager once told me when I complained about the stickers that they had tried using less sticky stickers but people would peel them off and put them on more expensive apples or plums or whatever i mean can you believe what some people will do to save ten cents?