Pesticide, the word, means to Kill Pest. So anything that kills must be bad for us, right? Well let's word that another way, is it good for us?
I can eat card board but it's not good for me. And that is the way LD50 is basically measured, by how bad it could be for us in what doses. So the answer is that pesticides are not measured on how good they are for us. But the level of how bad they are for us and what our bodies can withstand, so a good answer is the less to no pesticide use is wise. But is that enough?
Unfortunately; the USDA is measuring Organic in much the same way. The pesticide use is removed but how good for us is the food that remains?
A GMO really can be a fruit tree in your back yard modified over the years to bring a certain looking fruit, but the real question you should be asking of all the food you eat is, how GOOD for me is it?
If the fruit tree roots are being watered by a irrigation canal that has all the run off of local farms using pesticides, or, if the fruit tree is growing in sand with little to no nutrient value, or, if heavy doses of manure are being used to create big fruit but it has no nutrition in that compost process; have we really gained anything other than it's not as bad for us?
We need a label that declares what the food has been grown in nutrient wise. The label should state if it has volcanic ash, Nordic sea kelp, natural worm casting compost, manure from nutrient rich soils the animals grazed on. THEN we would be able to say, yes, this food is actually GOOD FOR ME.
Public demand is what will prompt this and we need to start asking the organic fruit and vegetable stands these questions.
