markets accessable year round? YOu can get good stuff directly from the 'maker' so to speak. It's not cheap, but simpler?
Honestly, no food stuffs are safe anymore, nor should we expect them to be. The calculations regarding safety vs. death are calculated to the "PROFIT" nth degree...ergo us 'sensitive' folks just have to be 'careful out there'!
I got my DH a water filter for his use on his birthday recently, he loves it, thinks the water tastes better and all. But, I feel we have a very above average water- tested water here, and I want those little things in there to keep being there! WHY? Because IF I eliminate them, then I mite become susceptable to THEM as well. IF I can keep some 'things' I am tolerant of in my system and still be tolerant of them, that is that many fewer 'things' I could get sick from, in my opinion.
Give me things I CAN become tolerant to! Sound silly? Not really, I am just trying to be realistic. As A kid, I was in 'trials' I think about allergy intolerances, and in 'treatments' for same. Stuff didn't work for me, nor for anyone else I gathered...It was a kind of homeopathic kind of therapy. I still react as bady to those allergens now as I did then. Sigh.
Foods? Same things - how fish are fed, caught and processed these days is far different from 5, 10, and even 30 years ago! What is actually caught or raised is different as well. Beef, pork and poultry the same thing. Our options tho, are kind of limited? We could just not eat?
NOPE? Didn't think so.. So, we take our chances trying to be as informed as possible and choose accordingly.
WHO KNEW IT WOULD BE SOO HARD TO KEEP THINGS SIMPLE???? Hugs all -j