More Click-baity exaggeration from CBS.
Of 59 types of fruits and vegetables about 20% of the types had pesticides. Further inside each type only a tiny fraction of all the samples (from different farms/groves). Here’s a quote from a better article:
“Green beans are another example. They qualify as high-risk primarily because of a pesticide called acephate or one of its breakdown products, methamidophos. Only 4 percent of conventional, domestic green bean samples were positive for one or both—but their pesticide levels were often alarmingly high.”
So CBS headline would have you believe 100% of green beans are bad because that type of vegetable had some it it. Where the real answer is: Of all green bean samples tested 4% had concerning pesticides.
Skip the CBS article and read the real better article:
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/produce-without-pesticides-a5260230325/
Thank you so much for this! I would have scrolled along with an internal nagging sense of veggie doom totally forgetting where it came from. Your comment helped me engage with the article better and get curious.
We need to start spraying them with pesticide repellent!!
