Eating organic won’t keep you safe from pesticides, but it helps

What kind of produce you eat makes all the difference in your pesticide exposure, says a paper out by Consumer Reports. For example, “eating one serving of green beans from the U.S. is 200 times riskier than eating a serving of U.S.-grown broccoli.” Likewise, apples grown in Washington State are often heavily sprayed, while the same… » Read More

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