
Clean & Dirty; What's The Deal With Organic Produce?
Do you know about the Clean Fifteen and the Dirty Dozen? It sounds like a western, but it’s two excellent resource guides for purchasing produce that has been treated with pesticides. They tell you which crops are the dirtiest and which are the cleanest so you can make an informed decision when making a purchase. Each year, the Environmental Working Group updates this list based on the treatment of food crops, mainly the spraying of pesticides. The EWG is a community of 30 mi