Corporations and Government (FDA) continue to deceive!
Note: Certified organic strawberries aren’t necessarily so organic after all.
- Some organic strawberries are fumigated with toxic chemicals, including methyl bromide, at the beginning stages of their life-cycle. This stuff kills people just being around it (See Link)
- Methyl bromide, is used to sterilize the soil strawberries are planted in.
- Not sprayed on the fruit.
- A soil fumigant that kills almost everything it touches.
- A lot of hybridized seeds have been created that can only grow in a sterile soil.
- in order to have healthy plants with nutritious fruit, insects, microorganisms and earthworms, are needed to turn the nutrients, into a form that the plants can use. Top soil is created.
- Eating these kinds of treated strawbarries does not give the best health even if they are labeled organic.
EPA-approved pesticide is Bad
- "The compound attacks the central nervous system, and damages the lungs and kidneys. It has been linked to reproductive disorders, including birth defects". For more details: http://grist.org/article/sterile-soil-dirty-hands/
- microorganisms and earthworms convert animal and vegetable waste into humus.
- Methyl bromide is also associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer
NOTE: Safeway Stores have affirmed to me that their organic strawberries are truly organic with nothing sprayed on them, or the seeds, or the ground they are grown in.
We buy these and grow our own.
- rotating strawberries with other crops like broccoli or a suitable cover crop. Broccoli is a natural fungicide and protects strawberries.
- Methyl Iodide is not, a better replacement
- "More than 50 scientists, including five Nobel laureates, stated in a joint letter, “As chemists and physicians familiar with the effects of this chemical … we urge you to do whatever is possible to prevent this chemical from ever becoming a registered pesticide.”
Strawbarries:- Ref: http://livingtraditionally.com/a-dirty-little-secret-your-organic-strawberries-arent-really-organic/
I suggest buying organic, heirloom seeds. The following site tells you how to start your strawberry seeds - here.
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