Eat Strawberries. Get Cancer.
by tristero
Michael Pollan is absolutely right: Perhaps the only way in 21st Century to get crazy stuff like this to stop is for the health insurance lobby to take on the Big Food lobby.
That’s right: Nobody gives a shit about the poor losers who can’t afford to avoid Methyl Iodide and buy organic. Hell, if you’re that poor, you shouldn’t be eating gourmet food like strawberries anyway. No, the problem is that spraying carcinogens all over the fucking place, not to mention directly on stuff that’s supposed to be eaten, will harm the insurance industry’s bottom line. And that is Just. Plain. Wrong.
Is this a great country or what?
h/t my friend NK