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    Seriously, you need to wash any fruit or vegetable that you don’t peel first or you’ll be eating pesticides

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      Carrots often are covered in feces (manure) and the very ugly bacteria that comes with that. No joke.

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        And if it’s exposed in a bin in a grocery store it’s been handled by some dude who took a shit and didnt wash his hands almost definitely.

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        Or feces from the hands of the underpaid workers with no access to toilet facilities, who picked the produce.

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        It will be for pretty much every produce you can buy in supermarkets though.