Larisa > wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> me > wrote
>>> Beeblebrox > wrote

>>>> I remember a conversation with a friend of mine who swears
>>>> she'll never again buy organic broccoli. Says she tried it once,
>>>> and because there was no pesticide, the bunch was infested with
>>>> so many little beasties, she couldn't get it clean enough to cook.

>>> Whatever did people _do_ before pesticides came into common usage?

>> Put up with bug and weavil infested food.

> It's easier to take a worm out of an apple than to take
> poison out of your body after you eat a non-organic one.

No need to bother with the non organics, every modern
first world country ensures that what is in them is safe.

> I used to eat apples fresh off the tree, in Russia, and yes, there were worms
> in them every so often. So what? I'd take the creature out and eat the
> apple.

I've never had any problem with any apple I have ever eaten.

> The scary thing is when there are poisons and bacteria
> in your food that you *can't* see and take out that easily.

Nothing 'scary' about it in a modern first world country where
there wont be any pesticide residue thats any health problem.