LOS ANGELES — A diet rich in fruit, vegetables and whole grains is generally recommended for better health and to lower the risk of cancer and other diseases. However, new research from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research suggests...
tl;dr its the pesticides on the vegetables, not the vegetables themselves
Too lax regulations in US yet again.
USA food regulation is crazy
in most of the world a principle of prohibited untill proven safe is followed, in the land of free questionable chemicals in your food a principle of allowed untill proven unsafe is followed
Well… You can’t really prove something is safe. You can only say “we were unable to demonstrate any link to known harm”. PFAS was considered safe for decades. So was asbestos. Then the science got better, and we were able to show things we couldn’t before.