Did anyone else see Marketplace today? I'm not sure if it is available outside of Canada, but they had a short clip about TEA, where they tested a bunch of brands for pesticides and Tetley Tea came up with 16 pesticides (3 of which were above the legal limit), another brand, which I forget the name, had 22 pesticides in it! Incredible!

ALL the brands except one had pesticides in them like this. The only brand that had ZERO was Red Rose Orange Pekoe Tea. So if you drink tea, as we do once in a while, be warned.

When you can't trust something like Tea anymore, what can you trust?! Sheesh.

Hmmm... never thought about it. Thanks for bringing up the thought, though.

As a kid, I remember thinking that pesticides existed in order to keep bugs off of crops, because bugs are dirty. I wonder how many people fail to grow out of that notion.

Until now i don`t have insects on my balcony except bees and similar aviators. Sometimes there are a dozen of them, but i can sit in the middle of the balcony, they ignore me, they are completely fixed on the blossoms. I believe insects on plants often are a result of false cultivation and monoculture.

So far it works with my balcony, but what if i would have a big plantation and need to earn money with it? There are biological methods, but the complete agrarian structure must be changed, we need more peasants and they must become better paid.

In Spain they get 13 cent/kilo for their oranges, thats not even enough for the costs. These are complex problems and no easy solution in sight.

Now normally, I would agree with most people in here, it's a given the way things are grown these days that we find something. But when one brand has 22 pesticides and another has ZERO... this shows me someone is being lazy. Red Rose Tea has none what so ever, showing that a brand name can come through clean. Anyhow, I found the video for this episode online, check it out...

The fact that one of the brands tested is a mass produced product, a brand name here in Canada anyhow, had ZERO invalidates your stupid comment.

Yes, monoculture is completely unnatural. Have you ever seen a natural grown plantation, whith thousands or millions of the same plant and no other between them? It's not planned by nature this way.

Nature has the insects to eliminate plants that are not useful and grown in a false place or at a false time. Moon phase is important at this too.

In factory farming they don't care about the plan of the nature. They want to control it to earn money. But we must work together with nature, not against it.

When you say tea, do you mean green tea, or sweet tea? Because I'm all about some sweet tea. If the supposedly healthy green tea is harmful people, that's delightfully hilarious.

I thought sweet tea had sugar added. Same with lemons. Nothing to do with the tea leaves.

The latter of which is often several times below the former. Turns out, safety margins are a thing.

Yes, because the concept of epidemiological studies is entirely unknown to the scientists who research this for a living.

I posted the original TV program, it's a short video above. I noticed all sorts of teas, they tested quite a few, Green teas included.