Thank you to Djamilla who informed me that the APEEL statement I shared was from another Good Earth Markets and NOT our local Good Earth in Fairfax and Mill Valley.
Does anyone have a comment from our own GE Natural? If not, I’ll send an email to them and report back if they do use Apeel. If they don’t, I won’t send another substack notifying you…only if they are using Apeel. OK. . . and let me know what you know about your own local markets … Sprouts? Andy’s? Nugget? Farmer’s Market Booths, etc. Let’s know where we can get good clean food. Or who’s growing their own and do you have surplus to sell or trade?
I’ve called both GE’s (MV and Fairfax) asking if they have apeel (or any spray) and they claim they don’t however, they may not know that it was sprayed when packaged by the distributors. The distributors are the ones to call. So when buying produce look at the sticker to find the name of the distributors/farm and call them directly. I have done this and it’s not fun because you get passed in to several people and sometimes they have to call you back. Sprout’s definitely has apeel on their produce but sprouts doesn’t do the spraying. They told me they will stop buying apeel sprayed produce but I think it’s being done without transparency.
Same with GE. They aren’t spraying the produce but do they really know if the distributors are being honest?
And don’t forget the ingredients of prepackaged and frozen foods...they also have chemicals no matter how healthy the say they are. Farmer’s market also doesn’t mean the healthiest food.
If food is traveling then it’s likely sprayed and they do not always have a sticker saying so.
You need to forward your prior report from the Good Earth store that is not using Apeel on over to the Fairfax Good Earth and insist that this be a Good Earth entire business-wide policy that is adopted by every single one of their stores in the Good Earth franchise or they can expect to face boycotts. And DO REPORT BACK TO US, whether or not they DO, or DO NOT use Apeel-coated products in the Fairfax store. Silence can be construed to be many things. Please do your job and do it correctly.