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I have wondered this for a long time and always forget to ask my local farmer – Each year on the east coast of the USA, the “strawberry season” works its way up from FL to the Northeast, starting in February. I am in Maryland and they are peak of season here now until first of June. When larger farms grow berries to sell at their roadside fruit/vegetable stands, do the farmers spray the strawberries with chemicals, pesticides and other spray chemicals during the growing process ?? They always look so healthy (the plants) and berries are so big, perfect looking and sweet. It just seems too good to be true that these berries would grow so nicely without the use of chemicals and pesticides? I ask because EVERYONE seems to buy quarts of these berries and pop the darn things right in their mouths. We used to do it even years ago when we would pick them in farmer’s fields. If they are sprayed normatlly with chemicals what kind of stuff is sprayed on strawberries typically? Can the chemicals really be washed off the berries considering how rough and pourous the exterior of a strawberry is ? I don’t see how you could ever possibly get the chemicals off the berries in reality, as they would also get absorbed into the flesh of the berries during growth too. This really concerns me with all the cancer, leuikemia and other horrible diseases we are developing due to unknown reasons when this could surely be contributing to it. Do any farmers or farm workers out there know what if anything is sprayed on commercial strawberry fields in todays modern farm world ?? Thanks alot !!
Thanks very much Suzy – thats kind of what I feared – they do use chems/pesticides and probably gets absorbed into the berry flesh – I have about 6 people around me right now literally dying in late stage incurable cancers and leukemia’s – And we “WONDER” what is causing all these horrible illnesses, right ???? !!!!!