对于那些认为农药“只是洗掉就行”的人——再想想吧。

我同一天从同一家商店买了两组这些土豆，并且存储方式完全相同。

它们都是Russet品种。一颗土豆是有机的，另一颗不是。

一颗土豆在收获后被喷洒了CHLORPROPHAM*，另一颗没有。

我准备用这些土豆做一道我一直想尝试的菜——然后发现一组已经开始发芽了，这是土豆的自然过程。

Chlorpropham是一种发芽抑制剂，在收获后喷洒在土豆上，以延长它们的保质期。我的有土豆在收获后没有喷洒这种东西，因此开始发芽。

发芽抑制是土豆经历的密集农药/除草剂过程的最后一种化学物质。

在生长季节，它们被喷洒杀菌剂。

在收获前，它们被喷洒除草剂和农药。

挖出来后，它们再被喷洒发芽抑制剂。

土豆是根茎蔬菜，这意味着它们在地下土壤中生长、发育。一切接触土壤的东西，都会被土豆在生长、发育和成熟的过程中吸收。没有办法“冲洗”掉根茎蔬菜上的农药。它在皮里，也在肉里。

实验室动物长期暴露于Chlorpropham后，显示出“生长受阻，肝脏、肾脏和脾脏重量增加——最终死亡。它对蜜蜂也极具毒性。

根据国家有机标准委员会前主席Jeff Moyer的说法，大多数土豆农民不会吃他们为市场种植的作物，通常会为自己的土豆另辟一块地。

你可以看到，非有机品种也被基因/DNA改造，几乎是有机品种的两倍大，这也被证明会降低营养密度。

我为有机版支付了双倍的价格，却只得到一半的土豆量。为了那些不浸泡在化学物质中的土豆，这值得。

For those who think pesticides “just wash off”— think again.

I purchased both sets of these potatoes on the same day, from the same store, and have been stored exactly the same.

Both of them are Russets. One potato is organic, and one potato is not.

One potato has been sprayed with CHLORPROPHAM* post harvest, and one has not.

I went to use the potatoes for a dish I’ve been wanting to experiment with — and saw one set was already sprouting, which is a natural process of a potato.

Chlorpropham is a spouting suppressant that is sprayed on potatoes post harvest, to allow them to have a longer shelf life. My organic potato was NOT sprayed with this post harvest, and therefore, sprouts are forming.

Sprouting suppression is the last chemical, of the intensive pesticide/herbicide process potatoes go through.

During growing season, they are sprayed with fungicides.

Before harvest, they’re sprayed with herbicides and pesticides.

After being dug-up, they’re then spraying with a sprouting suppressant.

Potatoes are root vegetables, which means they grow, and develop under ground, in the soil. Everything that touches the soil, is then soaked up into the potato as it grows, develops and matures. There’s no “rinsing” pesticides off a root vegetable. It’s in the skin, and it’s in the flesh.

Lab animals with chronic exposure to Chlorpropham, showed “impeded growth, with increased liver, kidney and spleen weights — and eventual death. It also is incredibly toxic to Honey Bees.

According to Jeff Moyer, former chair of the National Organic Standards Board, has said that most potato farmers won’t eat the crop they grow for market, and will typically have a separate plot for their personal potatoes.

You can see that the non-organic variety has also been altered genetically/dna to be almost twice the size of the organic variety, which has been shown to reduce nutrient density as well.

I paid double the price, for half the potatoes for the organic version. Worth it for potatoes that don’t marinate in chemicals.