Europe BANS Cancer-Causing American Apples

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13. Which is one reason...

...why I go directly to the orchard, and pick my own. I also go to the orchard to get cider that is pressed from this year's harvest, and instead of using sulfides, some of the orchards around here have started using UV light to control the bacteria in the cider. I know that there is little or no pesticides in the cider or the apples, because the yeast I use to make hard cider every year, for oh, about 15 years now start the fermentation process within a half hour. When I used cider that had sulfides in it, and other pesticides, it would take 24 hours before fermentation started, and the fermentation was not as robust as it currently is. So either my yeasties (my pets) have mutated to like this stuff, or as I like to believe, it has less bad stuff in it.
(yes I do use fresh yeast, but only every couple or so years. I am probably the only person with millions of pets in my tiny house, and they all live in a couple or three five gallon carboys. (go ahead, call me weird, I take it as a compliment!))

The other reason is that some of the folks who have been keeping these orchards for generations here in the Hudson Valley have become friends. They are neighbors as well, and have made every effort to lessen the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Heck, some use none.

I just think that the Europeans are not getting their apples from the right orchards. I don't know where I would be if I didn't have my great NY apples. AFAIC, they are the best!