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The Organic Center has just released a free download of 'organic essentials.'
A list of the fruits and veggies you really want to consider only buying ORGANICALLY because of the high amounts of pesticides used on the conventional versions.
The Organic Center is a non-profit founded "to generate credible, peer reviewed scientific information and communicate the veritable benefits of organic farming and products to society". So they have brainy industry heavyweights like Dr. Charles Benbrook working on the real world science of why green is good. (Psst, you can also check out the late Grateful Dead lead Jerry Garcia's cool artwork, and purchase a print to benefit the Center. Garcia's wife is doc film maker Debra Koons Garcia, her The Future of Food does for Genetic Modification what Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth does for Global Warming--helps us all understand what it actually means...)
Now I'd like to suggest that you just buy everything organic, but with the rising cost of food, some of us may be tempted to cut back on our organic produce purchases because of the premium it sometimes carries in terms of price.
This list makes it easy to know what to buy organic, or if you can't, what to avoid all together. (Remember, every day, one million American children age five and under consume unsafe levels of a class of pesticides that can harm the developing brain and nervous system, according to a new analysis of federal data by the Environmental Working Group (EWG):
Here's a quick look at the list:
Domestically Grown Conventional Fruits
Domestically Grown Conventional Vegetables
Imported Conventional Fruits
- Grapes
- Nectarines
- Peaches
- Pears
- Strawberries
Imported Conventional Vegetables
- Sweet bell peppers
- Lettuce
- Cucumbers
- Celery
- Tomatoes
Lynda Fassa is Planet Green's babies and family expert. She's the founder of Green Babies organic cotton baby clothes and the author of Green Babies, Sage Moms: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Your Organic Baby, and the forthcoming Green Kids, Sage Families: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Your Organic Family, both from Penguin NAL. Read her previous posts here.
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