Organic: Spend Your Grocery Dollars Wisely

HOW DO WE KNOW HOW OUR FOOD IS GROWN?

We all know that organic food is often more expensive the conventionally grown foods. And watching budgets we cannot always buy the organic version of the produce. However, there are some foods that need to be bought organic as they contain high levels of pesticides. Each year the Environmental Workers Group (EWG) comes out with their list of the dirty 12 and the clean 15. The lists are based on the amount of pesticides found with the foods when grown conventionally.
<PRINTABLE LIST CLEAN DIRTY FOOD>
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Each of these foods tested positive for a number of different pesticide residues and showed higher concentrations of pesticides than other produce.
Key findings:

More than 98 percent of strawberry samples, peaches, nectarines, and apples tested positive for at least one pesticide residue.
The average potato had more pesticides by weight than any other produce.
A single grape sample and a sweet bell pepper sample contained 15 pesticides.
Single samples of strawberries showed 17 different pesticides.

MONSTANTO & GMO’s

Monstanto is a chemical giant, a self-proclaimed leader in genetic engineering of food crops.
That’s not something to be proud of.
GMOs have been linked preliminarily to:

Food allergies
Increased toxicity
Decreased nutritional value
Antibiotic resistance
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You see by the graphic they control much of our food source and contaminant much of our land. By avoiding products made by companies on this list, you can help ensure your money isn’t going to Monsanto and also watch out for the health of your family and yourself.