…another scary article about foods that are poisoning you. Prevention Magazine asked seven food safety experts to name a food they avoid, and while most answers were nothing shocking, a couple made me think, namely the potatoes and apples.
I try to buy local and organic whenever I can, but if I see a display of local potatoes or apples next to organic, non-local versions, I’ll generally choose from the local pile, even without the organic label. I guess I shouldn’t assume that local produce is organic, and that local always trumps non-local/organic. As if I needed my produce shopping to be more complicated.
I liked the article’s closing, a great refute to the “organic is too expensive” argument:
If you can’t afford organic, be sure to wash and peel them. But Kastel personally refuses to compromise. “I would rather see the trade-off being that I don’t buy that expensive electronic gadget,” he says. “Just a few of these decisions will accommodate an organic diet for a family.”
The list of foods to avoid:
- Canned tomatoes
- Corn-fed beef (yay Joel Salatin!)
- Microwave popcorn
- Non-organic potatoes
- Farmed salmon
- Milk produced with artificial hormones
- Conventional apples
Canned tomatoes? Seriously? AAAAARGH!!!!!