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In my opinion, you have a problem with relying on something like, say, the "Dirty Dozen".
This is a list who, for folks that are unaware of it, that says that if we list fruits and
vegetables that have been analyzed by the USDA for pesticide residues, here's the one
that has the most residues, here's the one that has the next most.
By definition, no matter how pesticide residue-free our food sources are, there will always be
one that has the highest and one that has the next highest because that's the fundamental
basis of a list. What it doesn't do is give you any information
as to whether or not those amounts represent a risk.
The average consumer doesn't think about that. So I have concerns that he or she might shy
away from consuming perhaps that apple, or that banana or that pineapple out of a fear
that it's unhealthy. And so what's occurring is they're making
this trade-off, they're not consuming it, which is actually quite bad in terms of their
overall health for a perceived risk that probably we can barely even quantify.