Yes, truly pesticides are truly the problem... We all know the wonderful mental gymnastics fats get up to (because they are incapable of any other type of gymnastics) but today's really took the cake and made me pause to think. So I usually do my produce runs on the weekend, to stock up on a fresh round of fruits and veggies. Luckily where I live it's never too far of a drive to find a place that has really good produce. I'm talking everything rotated out pretty well, and all the fruits are usually pretty fresh (even the berries at this time of year, of all things). Keep in mind where I live, it's not hard to find all manner of berries on sale. If you know where to look, and when they are not in bad shape either as said before. After getting what I needed I headed to the check-out line and there was a group of overweight church ladies decked out in their Sunday best crowded around a table. The table had a bunch of cake confections. Not very big things but all in individual plastic things. I would hazard a guess that each one of these could pack well over 1000 + calories and that's being conservative. One of these ladies picked up this grape-fruit sized cake confection covered in fancy frosting and remarks to the other hogs that she doesn't bring berries home anymore. They go to quickly, and she's worried about the pesticides they use. Basically she fears that her grand-kids would get sick from eating too many berries that have pesticides on them. Let that sink in. So this lady who already is sporting a drooping gut, sagging face, full blown bingo wings, and scabby chicken legs (and obvious signs of type II judging by the discoloration going on) while choosing between a simple carb heavy sugar bomb claims that pesticides make berries too unhealthy to eat. Shows no consideration that her entire little cart is full of junk food full of all sorts of additives and chemicals(that no doubt will be given to her grand-kids). Doesn't care the "Diet" soda is also full of nasty shit that's bad for your body long term. Nope, fresh fruit has dem sprayed on chemicals so they is bad! Now don't get me wrong I'm not against the idea of intelligent pesticide use, and there was a time no one cared what the long term consequences were of certain kinds. It just amuses me that fats so often make every excuse in the book as to why they won't buy healthier food, or feed healthier food by bringing up crap like that (or other organic bullshit myths), while stuffing themselves on processed garbage.