Beware The Dirty Vegetables!!

After coming to this new place where I am now, I heard a totally new news from my hubby. It is that people are growing vegetables from the ditch water [em]shocked[em]. It is a hard news for me to digest. After hearing that I would be so selective in vegetables.

Was this meant as a joke? I sometimes grow some vegetables depending on the season. Sometimes we grow potatoes and they come out of the dirt because that's where they grow. Even the lettuce, we have to wash the dirt out of that too. Even sometimes there are bugs on the vegetables when we bring them in so we get extra protein if we ever miss them :D Maybe you should use the internet and learn where all your food comes from before you buy it, might make you feel a bit better :)

I try to wash my vegetables with soap and water. I don't mind the dirt, it's the pesticides that I'm afraid of. Wasn't concerned until my mom started losing her mind in her 40s. Then I figured my genetics were going to screw me over, so why help them along? Thus the washing of the veggies and fruit with not just water.

My god! We cannot be eating dirt at all. For all we know we just might end up with minerals or vitamins and all sorts of nutrients from that dirt, particularly if it is organically grown vegetables that you are talking about. It is much better to wash them in water that contains chemicals such as chlorine and fluoride so that we can kill off all that nasty beneficial bacteria too.

What a dirty discussion - ha ha! All vegetarians must be warned! We should only eat bagged salads and vegetables ... at least they come from bags! The frozen ones are probably grown on ice. Did the grocery store guy say anything about fruits???

What? he washed vegetables with water hose? Oh no, it is so bad... Why did he do like that...it is so disgusting...

With all those indiscriminate use of pesticides on agricultural and horticultural produce, one must be taking extra caution in the intake of vegetable favorites. The cleaning of vegetables brought out from the firm is necessitated on account of this remnants of pesticides being stuck on the surface of most of it.

I learned this from a man who owns a landscaping company... Plants do not grow in dirt, they grow in Soil! Dirt is junk, dirt is gravel and old bits of anything that's falling apart... dirt is something you want to clean up, and can't stand the sight of. Soil, is earthbound nutrients. Soil is minerals that plants eat to grow, and live in. Soil makes the plants more fertile and live longer lives, so that they work better for us. There's a huge difference. Your fruits and vegetables don't grow in dirt, they grow in soil.

Oh yeah, veggies comes the dirt -hehehe. There are veggies that grows in the ponds- with water but even those ponds got some dirt as well.

Vegetables could be dirty if they are not properly washed. You have to wash the veggies very well to remove dirt and other germs.

Vegetables are from the dirt. I use to plant vegetables before in the province and I even harvest it myself so it was kinda dirty coz it was just came out from the dirt. hehehhe But, you can clean it anyway, so you don't need to get scared of eating them after washing it. Just wash it thoroughly.

oh pageturner, so many people like to eat dirt...along with or other than vegetables...for instance, when i was a small child i played with a boy cousin who loved to make imaginary hamburgers out of dirt and munch on them fearlessly... being a fastidious child i could not join him in this activity....also, i have heard of children and pregnant women and others who liked to eat clay or dirt because of pica, a vitamin deficiency...in fact i was once in a store outside athens, georgia and saw in the candy aisle small bags of white clay being sold for consumption as a delicacy....

well pageturner, as my father used to say when he saw my brother returning to our home completely covered in dirt after an afternoon playing outside: a little dirt never hurt anyone...

Hi friend, most of the vegetables are came from dusts only. The root veggies like potato, carrot, turnip, beetroot and other rooted veggies are came from the under of the earth which is having lot of dirts, most of the shop keepers and vegetable sellers are cleaning the vegetables before selling. We must clean the veggies before cooking it

Yes how gross! when you know where they come from. If we don't wanna eat them, we can live in a country side, grow our own veggies and eat them straight from the garden. How tough can it be!

Where did you actually think vegetable grew from? You would be more revolted if you knew where your daily meat came from or what they eat.

Sluuuuuurrrpppp. That is the sound of large numbers of people being sucked in, dirt and all. I suppose even I have to be included since I'm actually answering it. It only eggs him on, he is what we call "topping from the bottom" (no, not the bottom the eggs come from). I can't go on, I'm too chicken. I'll only end up with mud on my face if I continue. Lash

I am aware that vegtables grew from soil but due to their ability to process what plants get from soil they produce very good vegetables. It will not stop e from eating them even they came from "dirt". They are ways to clean them. If you are going to divert your food to pure meat, animals still eat vegetables. hehehe. I worked in a feed milling industry so I know how feeds given to chicken and pigs are made and what are the ingrdients of these feeds. hehehe

Uhhh I'm not sure if you're trolling the internet or actually being serious. Yes, vegetables do come from the "dirts", that's why you wash them off before eating them or cooking them. It's really not that big of a deal, it's not like you're eating dirt. Maybe you should stick with frozen veggies so you don't have to deal with all the dirts...

Sometimes i dreaded to think that mylot-ers post stuff just for the sake of it so that they could earn. How many of us login to mylot and find some laughable and useless discussion? Kinda like spamming the discussion column but anyway here's my 2 cents. Where have you been living? Vegetables from ancient times up until modern day is planted on dirt or soil. They get all the nutrients from the soil. I don't see anything wrong with it. Only recently they develop a way to plant it in water which contains all the nutrient it need to grow. I can't remember what it is called. Organic farming? Why would that the man at the grocery stores wash those vegetables? So that it is edible. I will not stop eating vegetables because i knew they come from dirts or soil since i was a little kid and i have no trouble growing up. You do know the process of vegetables from the grocery to your kitchen to being cooked to being eaten right? Cooking process also kills all the bacteria and germs so we could eat the vegetables. Our body has defensive mechanism to prevent, kill and stop harmful germs. AND you do need these vegetables to provide you with nutrients. Even if you think you're going to stop eating vegetables and you will say "oh well, i'll just get my multi vitamins and minerals from the pharmacy". Guess what, most of the pills and supplements are made of vegetables or even from animals.