I'm dabbling a bit into finding out why to eat organic and what to eat organic. In my searching, I ran across Kids Organics that had an article listing some of the top foods that you should make a priority to eat organic. Let me tell you, my eyes have been opened! And that made me want to share with you some of the foods on their list:

1.  Baby Food -- very young children are extremely susceptible to pesticides. Some organic baby food brands are Earth's Best and Tender Harvest. You could also make your own -- keep your eyes peeled for a future blog about that particular topic!
2.  Milk -- today's milk is loaded with antibiotics and growth hormones. Make sure your milk and other dairy is from organically-fed cows without the extra rBST, rBGH and antibiotics.
3.  Soybeans -- Most soybean in the USA is genetically-modified. Why the fuss over modified soy? The herbicide Round-Up Ready has been spliced into the soybean plant DNA. That means you can never wash that herbicide off because it's "permanently embedded".
4.  Bananas -- because of the short window of ripeness and long distances they have to travel to the store, these fruits are loaded with pesticides.
5.  Green Beans -- Over 60 different pesticides are used on green beans.
6.  Peaches -- peaches often have the highest rates of illegally-applied pesticides.
7.  Rice -- domestic rice is "splattered" with chemicals.
8.  Corn -- not usually considered wrought with pesticides, but if you take into consideration that 75- 90% of all domestic corn has been genetically-modified, that the average American eats 11 pounds of it, that most cooking oils include corn oil, and that most everything is sweetened with corn syrup, then you might be more apt to consider organic corn.
9.   Potatoes -- can be laden with pesticides or genetically altered.
10. Raisins -- grapes are laden with pesticides. Raisins are concentrated grapes, therefore concentrated poisons.