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  2 0 I don't know how terrible the pesticides are, but I imagine they're pretty bad. Apples are on the dirty dozen list and I always buy them organic. What I do know is that Whole Foods has local organic Honeycrisp apples right now and they are AMAZING. They tend to have a wide variety of local and organic apples during the fall, so you could check that out. http://www.foodnews.org/fulllist.php Emily Steed answered in Food & Drink about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 You also want to consider the health risk to all the farmers and pickers who have to work with the stuff. And the ground run-off. Organic apples are just as delicious as non-organic. What's the prob? Misty Brown answered in Food & Drink about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 How dangerous are they? Well I don't know how dangerous they are to a person. The fact that so many are commonly used is a pretty disconcerting. But yeah, you're going to trade something in terms of the healthiness and maybe even tastiness of the fruit for a chemical free apple. It's kind of the age old organic vs conventional question...where do you draw the line between a healthy, pretty looking plant and a clear, mystery chemical free meal. Arsenic7 answered in Food & Drink about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by Emily Steed and Rev.Enant… 0 0 Actually, organic produce is better for you - the plants have more antioxidants and some studies have shown that they have more essential vitamins as well. Also, the organic produce that I buy is gorgeous - where are people shopping that they get terrible-looking organic produce? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article2753446.ece Emily Steed commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 If comeliness were really the highest priority in choosing food, then (perhaps) no one would ever buy potatoes or squash... Emily, I think the organic sections of many 'supermarkets' are pretty sad: close to the liberals/yuppies, the sections are good, but as an example, the Safeway in pinehurst and the jackson Red Apple have pretty horrid organics sections, that work as sorta backhanded advertisements for conventionals. Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 A: Pretty Fawking Awful. Apples were #2 last year and #4 this year on the Dirty Dozen foods list. Here's a lovely summary of the nasty stuff on your typical non-organic apple: 5 known carcinogens, 19 suspected hormone disruptors, 10 neurotoxins, and 6 developmental or reproductive toxicants. (This info is from the USDA PDP (pesticide data program and the US EPA). Those chems include carbaryl, o-Phenylphenol (a shelflife extender that happens to also be a chemical used by hospitals as a disinfectant), captan, Dimethoate (formerly known to the Nazi's as Nerve Gas), and my personal favorite, Azinphos methyl - also a nerve gas, the EPA has demanded that its use come to a halt, but yet it's still being widely used on apples (and in heavy concentrations). http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/azinopho.htm So, as long as you don't want (healthy) babies, don't care about your hormones being in natural balance, are apathetic about your brain & nerves working correctly, and laugh in the face of cancer, then non-organic apples are probably A-OK for you. (...not to mention the secondary evil effects, like how carbaryl, in addition to being a known/confirmed carcinogen, also kills off useful things, like honeybees. And crustaceans, miles downstream.) I mean, we're talking, after all, about chemicals specifically designed to interfere with central nervous systems of living creatures to a degree required to murder them. En masse. http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/food.jsp?food=AP you can also check out pesticideinfo.org http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/Dirty-Dozen-Foods Rev.Enant answered in Food & Drink about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by PowerfulDot and Rev.Enant… 0 0 Seriously Rev, you gotta chill out a little bit. Evrything in the world is a toxin, it just depends on the dose. While one should be skeptical about the safety of food additives and pesticides, you can't assume that just because something is bad in larges doses that it's bad in small doses. Educate, don't scare. PowerfulDot commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Need to chill? Maybe a little. But not on this. Re: additives & pesticides: When organic fruit -and the proliferation of Wholefoods/PCC- shows that non-pesticide-added fruit is a viable and profitable option, WHY WHY WHY continue to grow & then sell potentially perfectly good fruit that's been covered in 42 (small dose) toxins? I CAN presume that the foods on the dirty dozen list are bad, and I can prove (or I should say, I pointed to others who have proved) that at least 2 of the chemicals on a typical conventional apple are known cancer-causing agents. e.g. BPA isn't immediately toxic in small doses either, but I ditched my shitty plastic water bottle right away when I learned about how nasty BPA is. Why risk my health? Why risk my children's? In my opinion, the burden of proof is on the seller, not the consumer: food does not have a right to be innocent until proven guilty. I challenge you/the apple-philiacs to show, without a doubt, that small doses are NOT harmful over the long term. After all, do we know what causes Brain Cancer? No. Is it possible pesticides are to blame? Yes: they have not at all been ruled out. So prove carbaryl, o-Phenylphenol, captan, Dimethoate & Azinphos methyl are harmless in apple-spray-sized doses. Not just for a day or even a year, but over one human lifespan. Until then, I suppose I prefer to scare AND educate. ;) The dirty dozen list is a very useful tool. Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 According to this list http://www.foodnews.org/fulllist.php apples are the fourth worst produce for pesticides. Maybe peeling them before eating them would help? keshmeshi answered in Food & Drink about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Rev.Enant… 0 0 ahh, peeling robs them of yumminess as well as vital stores of their best nutrients. not to mention , it doesn't 100% eliminate all FORTYTWO typical chems / pesticides Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 The EPA has all kinds of documents about this. Consideing the political pressure that must be on on them from the apple lobby, what they have is kind of scary. One option I like is small stands or farmers' markets. The fruit may not be organic (that means something very specific and requires certification) but you can ask the growers/purchasers if the use pesticides. If they say no, the apples will likely be less perfect, but they won't be sprayed with poison. CleverScreenName answered in Food & Drink about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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