My family loves most kinds of nuts, including peanuts, and peanut butter is a versatile, low cost and high protein food. However it is also one of the most pesticide contaminated food that Americans eat. The reason for this is because peanuts are commonly rotated with cotton crops. Cotton crops deplete soils of nutrients and nitrogen rich legumes, like peanuts, help to build up the soil. So what is the problem? Cotton is considered to be one of the dirtiest crops in the world due to the incredibly high amount of pesticide use. Cotton is also not a food crop so the kinds of chemicals sprayed on cotton are not ones that would typically be used in edible agriculture (although those chemicals are also awful). Peanuts are then grown Continue reading “Why I Only Feed My Family Organic Peanuts and Peanut Butter”
