Apples, celery and strawberries led this years' Environmental Working Group's (EWG) list of Dirty Dozen fruits and vegetables and virtually every media report of the list led off with a picture and chilling headline about apples being the moist pesticide-laden fruit. Joe Schwarcz reports, "EWG claims that it is not out to scare the public, that it only strives to alert consumers as to which fruits and vegetables harbor the most pesticides and should therefore by purchased in their organic version is possible," (1) A better description of the list is fearmongering.
