Shopper’s Guide To Pesticides
The use of pesticides on plant foods has been – and most likely will always be – controversial. Whichever way you look at it, pesticides are synthetic, man-made chemicals that are formulated to kill living insects, pests, and pathogenic microorganisms. They are poisons, designed to kill things – and so the safety of the consumers will likely always be an issue. Innumerable studies highlight how pesticide exposure increases risks for different types of cancer [1], Parkinson’s disease [2], fertility problems [3] and more.
The questions is this – how safe can something really be if it was designed to kill something else? And how do consumers protect themselves from the potential risks of ingesting plants contaminated with pesticides?
