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12 Fruits and Veggies You Should Always Buy Organic

Conventional strawberries top the Dirty Dozen list of Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) 2016 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, displacing apples, which headed the list the last five years running. Nearly all strawberry samples—98 percent—tested by federal officials had detectable pesticide residues. Forty percent had residues of 10 or more pesticides and some had residues …

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How To Remove Pesticides From Non-Organically Grown Produce (Important)

What’s the difference between organically grown produce and non-organically grown produce? Well, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), organic farms and processors must not use any genetically modified ingredients. This means that organic farmers can’t plant GMO seeds, an organic cow can’t eat GMO feed, an organic soup producer can’t use any …

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Organic Controls Sales Have Caught Up With Traditional Pesticides, Garden Retailers Report

It’s taken many years, but organic control sales are now on par with traditional controls for U.S. garden retailers, an analysis of a few years of surveying garden retailers shows. And retailers consistently report that organic controls have a higher increase in sales each year than its counterpart. The data was pulled from several years of …

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Costco Sells So Much Organic Produce, It Aids Farmers to Grow More

America’s appetite for organic food is so big, the largest seller can’t keep its shelves stocked, so it’s loaning money to farmers to grow more. Costco recently surpassed Whole Foods as the top seller of organic produce — with four billion in annual sales, but CEO Craig Jelinek says the company can’t get enough to …

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