Microblog: Kale Has Some of the Most Pesticide Residues

When I was plant-based (12 years), I loved vegetables. But I NEVER liked kale. When I ate the large leaves, I’d chew many, many times and I still felt like I was choking and swallowing shards of glass, I mean grass.

🌿I thought kale was healthy and ate kale for years (mostly raw.)

So when I researched kale, I was not happy.

❌WHOever decided kale was a SUPER food was so unbelievably wrong.

⚠️Kale is now on the EWG’s Dirty Dozen list. Of ALL the plant-based foods you can eat, kale has some of the most pesticide residues.

☠️Over 92% of kale had residue from 2+ pesticides, EVEN AFTER washing and peeling. Some had up to 18 pesticides!

☠️Almost 60% of kale samples showed residual Dacthal, a pesticide that is known as a possible human carcinogen.

☠️USDA data shows that 30% of kale samples also had residue of imidacloprid, a potentially neurotoxic neonicotinoid insecticide.

❓So who makes imidacloprid? Bayer.
(who also owns Monsanto aka glyphosate aka Round-up.) Imidaloprid is one of the main reasons we’re seeing the loss of bee populations.

🚫 This is why Dacthal and imidacloprid are both banned in the E.U.