http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exBEFCiWyW0
This little nifty science experience (narrated by adorable Elise) can really give you pause in thinking about the organic vs. conventional debate, even if I don’t quite agree with her final conclusion (there are many reasons why cancer rates have gone up, including the fact that people just don’t die of other causes first since science got better at preventing those; also, giving rodents extreme amounts of potential carcinogens doesn’t really convince me of their lethality, though I haven’t looked into this specific one in detail). Yet, when I am in the supermarket I sometimes wonder whether it really makes a difference whether I buy organic or not – and this little test shows that, yes, indeed it does.
Wow, what a difference! It’s just visually shocking how the pesticide going through the whole vegetable makes it unable to sprout :/