If you've ever been apple picking, you know how homely apples right off the tree can look. A far cry from the beautiful specimens we've come to expect from the supermarket: smooth, unblemished, blood-red.

But this cosmetic perfection comes at a price. It relies on pesticides that poison our soil, our water and our bodies.

Farmers themselves are the first casualties. Studies show they face elevated rates of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, prostate cancer, gliomas, leukemia, and melanoma.

Pointing this out shouldn't be a radical position, but it is. Must we take to the trees like Julia Butterfly Hill just to demand food that won't sicken us and degrade the environment? It’s unfortunate that we’ve come to a place where commonsense stewardship of nature requires the constitution

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