AN APPLE A DAY IS A LOT OF SPRAY

Just now browsing the local health-food co-op brochure we get every week, that has pictures of all the goodies on offer, and on the fruit page a picture among others of a group of health-conscious apple farmers boasting the healthy goodness of their shonoyaku (less 'sprayed') apples, saying that conventional store-bought apples are sprayed 30 times or more,whereas our healthy apples are only sprayed 15-20 times! And they charge almost twice as much for apples that are only half as indefinably toxic!

Shocked by my sheer ignorance I looked up the kind of stuff that gets sprayed on apples, and I still don't find half the amount of, say Ferbam, Permethrin or Esfenvalerate at all appealing, not to mention Thiodan, Imidan, Kelthane, Sevin, Captan, Thiophanate, Immunox, Dragon Systemic Fungicide 3336 WP or Ortho Bug-B-Gon Multi-purpose insect killer and that's only 12, 18 more to go, for conventional apples...

Talk about driven from the Garden of Eden...

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