I just learned a few months ago about how unsafe these berries are to eat. My family and I avoid this company’s products at all costs now.
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I just learned this. I wonder if my lips tingling was because of this and not just being fruit.
That's ok we're leaving those on the shelf anyway
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they are just now noting it after the fact
Stop buying America. Problems solved.
hence why im always washing the berries before consumption
I still would not trust them. They water the plants with shitty water too. Also genetically manipulated.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180146/strawberries-driscolls-water-genetic-pesticide
you might want to pick a better word than 'shitty' when talking about feeding plants considering what fertilizer is.
There’s a difference between fertilizer and shit in the ground water used to feed the plants.
Really. Huh. TIL.
So is this fudge, chocolate, or caramel they are spreading over this field?
It's Brawndo!
Yes it is. I cannot send a picture of the water under the ground with human sewage in it. But it’s there.
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The fertilizer is often shit. Chicken shit, to be exact, but others are used as well.
Yes the commercial fertilizers are produced to do that and contain poop. I am referring to the underground water that is tainted with all sorts of nasty things which they use to feed the berries.
Can you name a specific nasty thing here in the ground water that is bad for plants? As plants rely on ground water. As do trees. That's often where they source their water hence where the roots are.
Sure. Chemicals that seep into the ground water. Old city sewer pipes that leak raw human sewage etc into the ground water. Regular fertilizer from farm animal poop does not have these things in it. Do a search on chemical leaks into water table and broken sewer pipes leaking into ground water. I am sure you will find more than enough to substantiate my claim.
I'd say farm animals in US are being fed chems, drugs and steroids. I'm pretty sure some of it gets into their poop and ends up on fields.
Sadly your correct. One can hope these animals are not doing crack etc like the city folk and it’s the lesser of two evils.
I am sure you will find more than enough to substantiate my claim.
This is your claim. it is not my job to do your homework for you. either way I'm gonna move on cuz this sounds like sheltered apartment dweller logic that you only now just discover shit exists to feed plants and this really isn't a good sign for a source of information.
I am trying to find the article I read about them using tainted ground water (chemicals, raw sewage from public not the fertilizer that is sold as such with farm animal poop) on top of the forever chemicals that are supposed to be in them as well. Hopefully, I will find it and post it.
"hopefully"
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welp....i've given up any hope now.
Also, a lot of ag producers will till biosolids into their fields as fertilizer, which are the leftover spoils from sewage treatment plants. The biosolids are supposed to be composted enough to kill off harmful microbes, but sometimes they don't get up to kill step temp.
Regardless of complete composting, they usually have residual chemicals that are in the wastewater stream that aren't removed in wastewater treatment, like pissed out pharma drugs/metabolites, random household chemicals and hazardous waste, PFAs, etc.
More info covering the scope of the problem here. Anecdotal coverage of farmers being left with unusable toxic land here.
Thank you. Eloquently put. What I was try to say about sewage spillover with waste from humans with whatever drugs etc they take out into the sewers.
Not all hems can be washed simply by rinsing , others are within. Otherwise simple rain would do the job .
it disgusts me how many people just don't wash their produce before eating it.
It even says on the lid as you open the discolls "wash berries".
Driscoll is evil.
Driscoll is an unremarkable representative of the logical means and ends of capitalism.