"Derek Moody" wrote in message
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:15:27 +0300, Nick Apostolakis
wrote:

hello

i was wondering about the answer to a question and i would like to hear
your opinion.


lets say that we have a vegetable that is sprayed with a pesticide.
the pesticide says that after 15 days it gets degraded to non toxic
elements.

i think that it is a common case among the various pesticides and
fungucides.

if i pick up a vegetable 2 days before the pesticide deadline finishes
and store it in a refigerator is the pesticide going to dissolve as if
the vegetable was on the plant?

the point of my question is that i do not know what exactly the term
degrade means for the various agro chemicals.

it could mean that it is unstable anyway and disolves by its own no
matter where the vegetable is stored

or it could mean that it is dissolved by some biological or physical
factors (e.g heat or some bacteria) etc

what is your opinion and practice about this?


You spray pesticides on your crop, you eat pesticides. Don't believe
the bullshit.

You are what you eat.




Indeed. And many food plants contain a wide variety of natural pesticides
and hormone disruptors, selected over tens to hundreds of millions of years
of evolution to be harmful to insects *and* mammals at low doses,and which
testing has shown to be in many cases much more harmful than man-made
pesticides. For example, the active compund in lettuce is an order of
magnitude or more, carcinogenic than any pesticide allowed on the market
today.

So the factual answer to that above is, "you eat plants, you eat
pesticides". [Whether you spayed them or not].

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