food grown with organic fertilizers such as compost, fall cover crops, manure, and bone meal, using techniques such as biological pest control as opposed to pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, industrial solvent and irradiation.
For meat to be organic it:
USDA tests found a total 146 different pesticides on thousands of fruit and vegetable samples examined in 2014. 2016's dirty dozen list includes strawberries, apples, nectarines, peaches, celery, grapes, cherries, spinach, tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, and cucumbers.
For meat to be organic it:
- Must be raised organically on certified organic land with outdoor access
- Must be fed certified organic feed without antibiotics or added growth hormones (for poultry and pork).
USDA tests found a total 146 different pesticides on thousands of fruit and vegetable samples examined in 2014. 2016's dirty dozen list includes strawberries, apples, nectarines, peaches, celery, grapes, cherries, spinach, tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, and cucumbers.
