TreeHugger is a big fan of organic foods, but it can be tough to get all organic, all the time, and sometimes organics aren’t the best choice (like when they have to travel from Chile). So, when faced with buying conventional fruits and vegetables, it’s important to remember that some are treated with more pesticides than others, and that some carry more pesticides from the field to your market as well. Thanks to a study by the Environmental Working Group’s Top Ten Foods to Eat Organically, (who’ve done lots of worthwhile work in the past, including finding benzene in soda and creating a national tap water quality database), we now know where…

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