The Dirty Dozen: 12 dirty foods!
Hmm. Lots of links to share with you tonite.
First the EWG link that outlines all the foods the group looked at, the methodology it used, etc. I'll start with the methodology page and then you can just follow the links on the right hand side to see the rest:
http://www.foodnews.org/methodology.php
I looked this up to give me some sense of where we are in terms of organic production:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Organic/
And this provided some general statistics:
http://www.ota.com/organic/mt/business.html
Here's a local link to Oregon Tilth.. ((Be persistent, unlike me who called them three times on this story I wanted to do and never got a call back so I dropped it)): http://www.tilth.org/
I have to tell you I just gave Joe Becker a hard time (jokingly) because he had about 20 bucks of change in each pocket and I could hear him walking around from a mile away. He says he likes to carry it with him to feed the meters. Here's a photo taken at my desk.
Yeah, I know I'm a little arrow happy. I'll get over it.
Email me! sstricklen@kgw.com
