How does one truly eat clean foods untouched by chemicals?

I think the only way you could do that and be 100% positive is to grow your own. Otherwise, how would you really know that the farmer next door raised those chickens or grew those peppers without any of the things you want to avoid?

Grow your own with hydroponics.
You can not use your garden, because you have no control over the ground water or the rain, which will also be full of chemicals.

Do you know what chemicals are?

Trace the ingestion of water through a plant’s roots and see what comes along for ride. From ions to compounds and molecules, much is accepted into the plant for it’s use.

Much of what man applies to plants, such a s nitrogen fertilizer, are the plant’s own preferences in nitrogen, just done for them by man instead of bacteria.

Grow your own

@Neodarwinian I’m obviously referring to poisonous chemicals that are being used to keep the animals foods free of disease yet are unnatural and harmful when consumed…

I have a friend who left the big city, bought a farm and is growing and raising her own food. As noted, there is no control over what’s in the air and rainwater, but she is very particular about her seeds and everything that she can control. That’s a serious lifestyle shift, and not one we are considering.

We buy as much of our foods as we can from local farms, many of whom have undergone the process of earning organic certification, which takes several years. We have toured a few of the farms and we chat with them, and it does make a difference looking the farmer in the eye. Because they’re not factory farming or breeding for shelf life, they don’t need as many hormones, antibiotics and pesticides. Because they are selling directly to the consumers, or to high-end restaurants (farm-to-table is very popular around here) they focus on flavor.

Start with your state’s website, where you will find the department of agriculture, from there you will likely find links for organic farms and local farm markets. Or just search the web for organic farms in your state. We participate in one local farm’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) where people buy ‘shares’ of the farm’s yield for the season. Right now we are sitting snacking on fresh figs and crumbled blue cheese, drizzled with local honey from our marketing today- so fresh and yummy!

Well, have a garden and go to local farmer’s markets.

_@Whitetigress

” I’m obviously referring to poisonous chemicals that are being used to keep the animals foods free of disease yet are unnatural and harmful when consumed…”

Obviously? Really?

Are you talking about antibiotics. Then it is obvious you still do not know what you are talking about and are confusing the term natural with some idea in your head about what is natural and what is unnatural. Or did you mean supernatural.

Sounds a bit like the naturalistic fallacy at work here..

” chemicals that are being used to keep the animals foods free of disease yet are unnatural and harmful when consumed…”

So, raise your own livestock or find someone who does that. Assuming he has any livestock that are of butchering weight, not sickly or not dead.

Grow your own. My garden is producing delicious veggies of all kinds right now.
Short of butterfly piss, bird poo and the occasional deer tongue slinking through the fence, it’s all good.

If you want a good resource for finding the types of farms mentioned above, just input your zip code at the link I’ll include.

You can speak to the farmers directly and ask them about their vegetable growing practices and/or animal feeding.

www.localharvest.org

Consider also sprouting your own. Sprouting seed isn’t very expensive if you buy it by the pound online. Or you can buy smaller amounts at a health food store to see if you like the idea. There are only 3 elements to sprouting. You, the quality of your seed, and the water you use, all of which you can control

I think part of the point is we can’t control the quality of the water or the air, much less the food. I just read an article on arsenic which explains how it gets in everything.

If you are squeamish, don’t even read the American Lung Association article on air pollution