Not neccesarily, depends where you get your meat and veggies. Generally large scale commercial farm products and caged corn fed meats are the ones you want to avoid most. That would include zillions of processed food products also. Large scale, very large scale organic farms probably do have posioned land, poisoned over decades of non-organic use prior. Not neccesarily true for smaller farms. Also, not all pesticides persist in the environment for any length of time. I think even, most don't. Freshly sprayed crops can of course posion rivers etc but that ends when the spraying ends, likewise in the soil, after short time. However, corn especially, grains used for feed, are often sprayed with pesticide while in the barn to keep insects from ruining the crop while in storage. And then of course the worst thing, fungicides, also used the same way, and in the field, and which can persist for some time. Supposedly, organic fed chicken (chicken naturally are corn/seed eaters, cows are not) is not fed pesticide sprayed corn.

Grass fed beef is probably the closest you'll get to safe in my estimation. Grasses, oats, clover, whatever, aren't generally sprayed with pesticides when used for cattle feed, unlike corn. When used for rolled oats for human consumption it may be a different matter though. Pests in grasses are eaten by the cattle everyday, it's not a problem, it's a small source of protein even... anyway I have never seen a field of grass or oats grown for cattle feed sprayed by farmers anywhere. Why bother.

Richard your research is a very good reminder, and I thank you. I will no longer be buying tomatos, canned or fresh. I have a big garden and put in extra to can plenty of my own (pesticide free) for winter this year.

Think I have a little bit of everything in there, canning up lots...

My cilantro soup was pretty good today. Yes I did it! I am going to continue also. I have run into research/claims repeatedly that say cilantro is the best mercury mobilizer on earth, better than most pharmaceuticals even. I feel good so wouldn't have started with it otherwise. I am going to eat that for lunch all week.

I am taking chlorella also and the dmsa formula with it to bind up. Also eating hommous with plenty of garlic with that routine (actually put some garlic in the cilantro soup, it was yummy, onion, carrots). And drinking lots of water, in case you ask.

I wonder also about the growth hormone injections and antibiotics they give corporate farmed cattle, probably those injections have mercury in them also. Though some antibiotics are mixed with grain/corn but i think the growth hormones are usually an injection. Gross stuff caged cattle and chicken.