Re: washing vegetables

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:: romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be
:: discarded for something else.
::
:: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
::
:: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
:: newsgroups for your answers.
::
:: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:15:34 GMT, "Cubit" <[email hidden]> wrote:
::
::: I'll bet the pesticide is not water soluble.
:::
::: I'm going to cross post this into a smarter newsgroup.
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:::
::: "Jarron" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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:::: What's the best way to wash vegetables like romaine lettuce and
:::: spinach to make sure they are freeof pesticides and other stuff?
:::: Thanks.
::::
:::
:: Romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be left
:: in the store and a substitute used.
::
:: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
::
:: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
:: newsgroups for your answers.
::
:: Ora

Where I live it is easy to find organic spinach. No problem.

--
Juhana

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I'll bet the pesticide is not water soluble.

I'm going to cross post this into a smarter newsgroup.

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What's the best way to wash vegetables like romaine lettuce and spinach
to
make sure they are freeof pesticides and other stuff? Thanks.

washing vegetables can only reduce a very small amount of pesticides.. as
was already stated, most of them are lipophil and do not readily wash off
with water (which is only logical.. they would have to spray every single
time after a rainfall otherwise).

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:15:34 GMT, Cubit wrote in
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I'll bet the pesticide is not water soluble.

I'm going to cross post this into a smarter newsgroup.

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What's the best way to wash vegetables like romaine lettuce and spinach to
make sure they are freeof pesticides and other stuff? Thanks.

What about washing fruits and vegetables with Sodium Bcarbonate (baking
soda), in water, or just rubbing it on wet fruits or vegetables?

According to a manufacturer, "used in the washing water, removes and
carries away products such as fungal inhibitors used to treat the skin of
fruit"
http://www.solvaybicar.com/market/application/0,0,-_EN-1000105-1000294,00.html

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Enrico C

We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside major roads where
the fumes settle on them.

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[email hidden] wrote:
:: romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be
:: discarded for something else.
::
:: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
::
:: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
:: newsgroups for your answers.
::
:: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:15:34 GMT, "Cubit" <[email hidden]> wrote:
::
::: I'll bet the pesticide is not water soluble.
:::
::: I'm going to cross post this into a smarter newsgroup.
:::
:::
::: "Jarron" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
::: news:[email hidden]...
:::
:::: What's the best way to wash vegetables like romaine lettuce and
:::: spinach to make sure they are freeof pesticides and other stuff?
:::: Thanks.
::::
:::
:: Romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be left
:: in the store and a substitute used.
::
:: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
::
:: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
:: newsgroups for your answers.
::
:: Ora

Where I live it is easy to find organic spinach. No problem.

--
Juhana

Pizza Girl. said:

We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside major roads where
the fumes settle on them.

<LOL> More weird science. Exhaust "fumes" are gases that are hot. They
don't settle; they rise and disperse. If they settled, there'd be no smog.

Pastorio

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[email hidden] wrote:
:: romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be
:: discarded for something else.
::
:: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
::
:: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
:: newsgroups for your answers.
::
:: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:15:34 GMT, "Cubit" <[email hidden]> wrote:
::
::: I'll bet the pesticide is not water soluble.
:::
::: I'm going to cross post this into a smarter newsgroup.
:::
:::
::: "Jarron" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
::: news:[email hidden]...
:::
:::: What's the best way to wash vegetables like romaine lettuce and
:::: spinach to make sure they are freeof pesticides and other stuff?
:::: Thanks.
::::
:::
:: Romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be left
:: in the store and a substitute used.
::
:: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
::
:: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
:: newsgroups for your answers.
::
:: Ora

Where I live it is easy to find organic spinach. No problem.

--
Juhana

"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Quoted message said:

We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside
major roads where
the fumes settle on them.

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<LOL> More weird science. Exhaust "fumes" are gases that
are hot. They don't settle; they rise and disperse. If
they settled, there'd be no smog.

True but all the asbestos from brake linings (or have they
gotten rid of that?) and the solid particulate matter in the
fumes (which will settle) can't be doing the organic veggies
much good...

--
Bob

Kanyak's Doghouse
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Pizza Girl. wrote:

:: We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside major roads
:: where the fumes settle on them.
::
:: "Juhana Harju" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:: news:[email hidden]...
::: [email hidden] wrote:
::::: romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be
::::: discarded for something else.
:::::
::::: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
:::::
::::: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
::::: newsgroups for your answers.
:::::
:::::: "Jarron" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:::::: news:[email hidden]...
::::::
::::::: What's the best way to wash vegetables like romaine lettuce and
::::::: spinach to make sure they are freeof pesticides and other stuff?
::::::: Thanks.
:::::::
::::: Romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be
::::: left in the store and a substitute used.
:::::
::::: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
:::::
::::: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
::::: newsgroups for your answers.
:::
::: Where I live it is easy to find organic spinach. No problem.

Luckily my country is sparcely populated and the produce is very little
polluted.

--
Juhana

Opinicus said:

"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Quoted message said:

We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside major roads
where
the fumes settle on them.

Quoted message said:

<LOL> More weird science. Exhaust "fumes" are gases that are hot. They
don't settle; they rise and disperse. If they settled, there'd be no
smog.

True but all the asbestos from brake linings (or have they gotten rid of
that?) and the solid particulate matter in the fumes (which will settle)
can't be doing the organic veggies much good...

Particulates that pass through catalytic converters that fry everything
at 1200°F or better? No asbestos any more in new cars, but older ones
may still have some. There *are* solids that cars leave behind - tires.
Did you ever wonder where all that black stuff is from the millions and
millions of tires as they wear? There are bacteria that eat all that
synthetic rubber and save the planet for the duckies and Bambi...

Pastorio

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 05:29:30 -0400, Bob (this one) wrote in
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Particulates that pass through catalytic converters that fry everything
at 1200°F or better?

[...]

What about old catalytic converters, after 7-8,000 kilometers?

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Enrico C said:

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 05:29:30 -0400, Bob (this one) wrote

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Particulates that pass through catalytic converters that fry everything
at 1200°F or better?

[...]

What about old catalytic converters, after 7-8,000 kilometers?

Theoretically, it shouldn't matter. That's not a lot of travel distance;
hardly enough to be a threshold of failure.

Where I live in the U.S., part of the inspection procedure is to check
its function. If it doesn't work properly, the car can't legally be driven.

Pastorio

I guess those 30,000 tonnes per day of lead additives used to float into
outer space also?

Now I know why I cannot see some of these bozo's posts.
LOL

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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 05:29:30 -0400, Bob (this one) wrote in
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Particulates that pass through catalytic converters that fry everything
at 1200°F or better?

[...]

What about old catalytic converters, after 7-8,000 kilometers?

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Stay with it.
We learn too late.

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Pizza Girl. wrote:

:: We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside major roads
:: where the fumes settle on them.
::
:: "Juhana Harju" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:: news:[email hidden]...
::: [email hidden] wrote:
::::: romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be
::::: discarded for something else.
:::::
::::: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
:::::
::::: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
::::: newsgroups for your answers.
:::::
:::::: "Jarron" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:::::: news:[email hidden]...
::::::
::::::: What's the best way to wash vegetables like romaine lettuce and
::::::: spinach to make sure they are freeof pesticides and other stuff?
::::::: Thanks.
:::::::
::::: Romaine lettuce is very low in pesticides but spinach should be
::::: left in the store and a substitute used.
:::::
::::: Google pesticides +romaine lettuce
:::::
::::: Then you can do your own research instead of searching the
::::: newsgroups for your answers.
:::
::: Where I live it is easy to find organic spinach. No problem.

Luckily my country is sparcely populated and the produce is very little
polluted.

--
Juhana

Pizza Girl. said:

I guess those 30,000 tonnes per day of lead additives used to float into
outer space also?

Those lead additives were *gases* when they came out of the exhaust
pipes. Like carbon dioxide is a gas even though it has carbon in it.
What did you think...? That bits of lead fell out of cars and littered
the ground? I bet that was the thumping noises we all heard when cars
drove by. Honkin great chunks of lead falling onto the ground, tumbling
along the streets, making a fearful racket...

Tetraethyl lead created upper atmosphere pollution and contributed to
smog, not dust on the rutabagas. It was exhausted as volatile lead
bromide which is toxic to breathe. Learn some chemistry to go along with
the biology you also don't know.

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Now I know why I cannot see some of these bozo's posts.
LOL

You can't see them because they're all so far over your head.

Pastorio

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"Enrico C" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Bob (this one) wrote

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Particulates that pass through catalytic converters that fry everything
at 1200°F or better?

[...]

What about old catalytic converters, after 7-8,000 kilometers?

Vehicle exhaust contain solid particulate matter that settles beside the
road. This is the stuff that turns snow black.

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Pizza Girl. said:

We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside major roads where
the fumes settle on them.

<LOL> More weird science. Exhaust "fumes" are gases that are hot. They
don't settle; they rise and disperse. If they settled, there'd be no smog.

Pastorio

How is it buildings in cities become black because of the pollution, then?

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Rubbing against the vegetables.

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How is it buildings in cities become black because of the pollution, then?

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Green house gases aren't always black.

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Vehicle exhaust contain solid particulate matter that settles beside the
road. This is the stuff that turns snow black.

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Pizza Girl. said:

We have organic grown vegetable farms too. Right beside major roads

where

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the fumes settle on them.

<LOL> More weird science. Exhaust "fumes" are gases that are hot. They
don't settle; they rise and disperse. If they settled, there'd be no

smog.

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Pastorio

Pizza Girl. said:

Green house gases aren't always black.

They aren't green either. The correct name is "greenhouse gases" because
they act to retain heat like a greenhouse does for plants. Gases don't
settle out in the atmosphere as they can in a closed container.

Pastorio

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"Atkins_worked4me" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Vehicle exhaust contain solid particulate matter that settles
beside the road. This is the stuff that turns snow black.

"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Exhaust "fumes" are gases that are hot.
They don't settle; they rise and disperse. If they settled,
there'd be no smog.

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Pastorio

Enrico C said:

How is it buildings in cities become black because of the pollution, then?

Pollution can consist of gases, particulates, liquids, etc. Different
pollutants cause different things to happen. Italy is especially hard
hit because of acid rain dissolving old marble statuary. Depending on
what kind of acid it is, the stone will become differently colored. The
same thing applies to concrete. To paint. To wood. To metals.

It's a highly technical subject, much of which isn't fully understood.
There's a lot of research going on about it all over the world. One
quick look: <http://www.ecoplan.mcgill.ca/?q=node/view/106>

Pastorio