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Why eat organic apples?

Apple Scab - Faulty Human Logic

"Hey mister, mister, don't use that DDT.
Give me the spots on my apples,
But leave me the birds and the bees, please"

Fellow Canadian, Joni Mitchel sang that song in Big Yellow Taxi in the 60's. She was a visionary. Very few of us followed her wisdome.

Canadians are obsessed with looks over content which has given us the following afflictions:

  • An overwhelming concentration on human beauty over personal human qualities
  • A worldwide consumer race to always have bigger, faster, nicer items in our life
  • A food source tainted with man-made agricultural chemicals
  • A food source that tends to disregard where food is produced, (the environmental cost) rather than promoting an "Eat Locally" concept.

One minor effect of the misguided priorities of LOOKS OVER CONTENT is the leathery blemish called APPLE SCAB which sometimes occurs on the skin of organically raised apples.

Apple scab provides a classic example of a human over-reaction to a very minor visual problem, where the solution is worse than the original problem.

Natural Organic Foods
Look for the Green Sticker!

It's your assurance that the food you are choosing was grown or raised right on one of our own farms, without the use of any chemicals or pesticides.

Apple Scab

  1. Does not affect the taste of the apples
  2. Is not harmful to humans
  3. Is only skin deep
  4. Can easily be cut off with one swipe of a knife

We have deemed the look of the apple more important than the taste. Why do we have this overwhelming urge to have perfect looking fruit? Why do Canadians eat with their eyes? We prefer to eat an apple that may have had up to 15 sprays applied to it before we buy it in the store.

The result of pesticides, fungicide and herbicides is homicide. This applies not only to customers buying the produce but also to farm workers who are exposed directly to these chemicals on the farm.