[Gpdd] [GPDD] Food: Peeling fruit

[Muddy Rats]

Ok, Susi, this is sort of like the great water debate... I tend to be 
cautious with my child, and I'm no different with any critters - 
especially George.  I can't stand how the majority of produce is waxed 
these days.  The darned stuff is so greasy it can easily slide out of 
your hands, or so it seems.  Who knows what pesticides everything's been 
treated with... and if it's grown in a foreign country (as in South 
America), they follow different laws about pesticides.  It doesn't seem 
to matter what supermarket I shop at.  I don't care if stuff is organic, 
or not - I wash everything, and I peel most of it (I gave up peeling 
grapes when Dani was a toddler).  Even the laws about organic food are 
so hard to follow, and confusing, that I wouldn't trust that either, 
although I prefer organic.  There are some foods where there's more 
seepage thru the skin of the fruit to the fruit than others.  Everything 
is picked before it's ripe, and gassed on route to the stores so it ripens.

Lori