So, I love Spinach but apparently they are sprayed with a lot of insecticides to repel crop eating insects and this rules out Spinach for me. How worried should I be about the use of fertilizer for crop production?
P.S: I have been hearing a lot about sweet potatoes and how they are the perfect food but I was wondering how those were grown, do they use a lot of harmful fertilizer or anything along those lines?
Thanks for all your answers guys :)
Short answer: No.
Sweet potatoes are good, but no food is perfect.
The main problem with excess fertilizer is how it poisons water.
The problem with insecticides are they are fairly indiscriminate.
That said we have been using a version of each going back as far as we understood that certain things made the crops grow better, and certain things kept pests away.
There are other issues, but if you wash your produce and the treatments/fertilization were done at the correct time/way, should be fine.
I can’t tell if you’re talking about eutrophication or not, but that’s also a major part