Ned would like to extol the beauty of organic strawberries. It is a berry that Ned can eat, since the seeds are of such small size that they do not drive him mad with rage (Ned also recommends blueberries). But the strawberry is a wolf in sheep's clothing, as organic strawberries are among the most nutritious of all fruits. And a ripe strawberry is, like a thing of beauty to Keats, a joy forever. Moreover, their goodies are concentrated so one doesn't ingest too much sugar at the same time as one is ingesting all those antioxidants and bioflavenoids. Ned recommends Driscoll's strawberries if his friends cannot get local ones.
HOWEVER, it is vital that Ned's faithful followers eat only organic strawberries, since industrial strawberries contain among the highest doses of pesticides, fungicides, and other nasty stuff, of any common food. Moreover, conventional strawberry growers "sanitize" the soil by pumping in methyl halides. Methyl bromide, their poison of choice, has finally been banned from civilized countries, the last of course being the US, but it has been replaced by methyl iodide, which if anything could be more nasty than methyl bromide.
So Ned admonishes (with great respect) his readers to forego the few pennies they save by buying conventional strawberries and do the right thing for the growers, the planet, themselves and their offspring, and always buy organic.
I am fortunate to have friends that have gardens, mostly vegetables but some have small plots with grapes, strawberries and such. Sometimes I'll treat myself to the local varieties. The imported, homogenized varieties being nearly unpalatable. I simply won't eat an imported (meaning California, Florida or Mexico) tomato or strawberry, finding they bear little resemblence to a good, local, seasonal garden variety. Might give that brand of strawberry you mention though.
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