Safest Non-Organic Foods for my Budget

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Comment by Allis☀n on January 28, 2009 at 3:10pm

Thanks for the link to Gabriel Cousin's similar list of pesticide-affected produce. I'm sure it's still quite helpful, but I wonder if there are new pesticides or trends in pesticide use since 2000 that would require updated sources. For example, the use of herbicides have increased since his book was published (Agricultural Pesticide Use in the US)

Comment by Paddy on January 28, 2009 at 11:50am

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XsBJnpCwWLYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gabriel+cousens#PPA439,M1

Comment by Allis☀n on January 28, 2009 at 11:33am

Ha ha, Hextacy- naaah, I don't harvest wild succulents, because they make up 0% of my diet and I don't look to them for medicinal purposes, so I wouldn't be saving any money for all that driving through the desert. :-) I'd love to work on an organic farm some day, though- that's a future goal of mine.

Comment by Hextacy on January 28, 2009 at 4:30am

you live in the dessert. Wow! So you have free, wild fresh agave and aloe vera...pooh! That would be a penny saver for me if i could collect it wild ;-)

Comment by Allis☀n on January 28, 2009 at 4:23am

Thanks for the comments. Note to Erin: I live in the desert, so CSAs are harder to come by. :-( I enjoyed CSA bulk purchases when I was in California, but I've been in southern Nevada three years, so I'm familiar with what's available and wish there were more options closer to me. The gasoline required to get to some of the better options we have here would undo the savings on the price of the food. I make do with what we have, but that does mean going for the non-organics quite often.

Comment by karima on January 28, 2009 at 3:30am

THANKS FOR SHARING !