pesticides

Home Depot has announced that it is going to start requiring plant suppliers to label the plants that contain neonicotinoid pesticides on plants that they sell. This move is in response to honeybee decline/colony collapse. Other US companies are also going to require supplier to stop the use of...

It would seem academics are being sidelined by regulators and the pesticide industry even though their research shows legitimate concerns. From a BBC report "Pesticides linked to honeybee decline" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/29/crop-pesticides-honeybee-decline?newsfeed=true

How should produce from the grocery store be washed? Usually I just run fruit and vegetables under the tap, but it occurred to me that maybe that's not enough. I'm no germaphobe, and I generally don't buy organic, but I'm wondering if a quick water rinse is enough for something like an apple...

Apparently not only can the administration of the last eight years prevent Afghanistan from becoming the largest supplier of heroin in the world it would appear they have also proved themselves either inept or complicit in the widening destruction and pollution of America's national parks by...

This week's conspiracy theory courtesy of our friends at WDDTY involves a supposed link between pesticides and autism. Here is a summary of the claim (sent to me in an e-mail): source: http://www.wddty.com/03363800369655039095/autism-pesticides-on-farms-may-be-a-trigger.html I really have no...

I'm starting a new thread to discuss organic berries, because I posted this link in another thread: http://www.theorganicreport.com/pages/261_why_choose_organic_strawberries_.cfm and it was described as propaganda. The site is certainly biased toward organic food (noticed the name of the...