Consumers

The other day I was cutting apples from my Grandma's tree to make homemade applesauce.  Many of the apples had worm holes and earwig holes that I had to cut out and it got me to thinking.  I didn't mind cutting out those holes and the destruction they caused because I knew that those holes were the result of pesticide free fruit!:)  Then I started thinking about when I go to the store.  Do I buy the fruit/vegetables that are bruised or damaged?  Most of the time I don't,  I spend extra time looking for the best looking fruit. That thought led to this next thought.  No wonder we use pesticides to get rid of bugs.  Consumers want bug free food, so to meet the demand of consumers, producers started using pesticides to get rid of the bugs so that they could sell enough product to make a profit.  That is when it hit me, I am part of the problem of pesticide-laden food.  It seems to me that we can't have it both ways, we can't have food that is pesticide AND bug free.  I feel bad for the farmers that are caught in this mixture of trying to meet all of consumer's wants.