Reply #45: Didn't mean to sound huffy...

[countryjake]

and I understood what you meant about it dissipating before a consumer might ever touch it. They've used it in strawberry fields here & when they spray, they cover it up right away, but it's the poor farmworkers who do the covering. Also, I'm pretty sure that it's the blooms that are sprayed, not the fruit. But our county has children working the strawberry fields, my own daughter started picking when she was 12; I raised a fuss about pesticide exposure to her school, which is where the buses picked the kids up to take them picking & her principal & her employer assured us all that no residue was left in the fields by the time the berries were ripe.

The plight of the farmworkers is still disastrous, with literally backbreaking labor to do for peanut pay, & the constant & never-ending battle against these poisons. I would love to stick our prez (& his entire family) in one of our county's nice picker homes, beside the fields he pollutes, to breath the air he's poisoning...just a nice little month-long vacation, preferably early spring, when the sprays are all flying. Oh yeah, & to drink from the sand-point wells that are the water sources for these people.

I'm sorry for my confusing things & distracting from the points of this post; I did not wish to do that.