If you have to buy flowers this Valentine's Day, buy organic!

Ah, here's something new that I honestly didn't know about (thanks to Meteor Blades at Dailykos for bringing this article to my attenstion): sometimes flowers one buys for special holidays and occasions, like Valentine's Day or Mother's Day, may come from a megafarm in Columbia or Ecuador where workers, who harvest them, come into constant contact with pesticides. Shame to think that the same kind of environmentally unsafe conditions that affect banana harvesters and cocoa bean harvesters could be affecting flower harvesters, but when one thinks about it, it does make sense logically. Perhaps it is time to start demanding organic when it comes to buying flowers, just as people do when buying other forms of produce.