notbob > wrote:

>Let's take hummus as an example. Where do you get your chickpeas
>from? Are they GMO? How do you know? What herbicides, insecticides,
>fertilizers are used on them. What are the possible side effects?
>How do you know?

>Bottom line, you don't.

That's silly. If they are organic, they are not GMO and there
have not been pesticides used on the crop of beans, or on
the land they were grown on for a specified length of time.
And this is controlled/certified by the appropriate process.
The process may be imperfect, but it is not valueless to the
point that you "don't know".


Steve