'Green' Flowers Tell Sweetheart: Be My Eco-Friendly Valentine
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › February 13, 2008
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Those beautiful roses you're giving for Valentine's Day have an ugly side: Most are grown with highly toxic pesticides.
"Flowers are the most toxic agricultural crop in the world because they have to look perfect," says Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association.See the full content of this document
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'Green' Flowers Tell Sweetheart: Be My Eco-Friendly Valentine
To keep the flowers blemish-free, growers mostly located in Colombia and Ecuador use large amounts of chemicals. Because flowers aren't a food crop, government restrictions are few, Cummins said.
But following in the sustainable footprint of hybrid cars, organi...See the full content of this document
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