-The New Minute
We can wash and clean our vegetables plenty of times but that’s not the right solution. The solution lies in our regulatory system.
Pesticides are everywhere – whether it is their use in our farms or their prevalence in our plates. We have somehow convinced ourselves or have been convinced that if we set certain regulatory standards we can conveniently forget about the negative impacts of pesticides and continue their rampant use. But the regulatory mechanism can only play a minimum role or in some cases none in protecting consumers, farmers and our environment from these harmful chemicals.
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