Pesticides in Celestial Seasonings, says investor who shorted Celestial Seasonings

Sleep forever, bear.

Sleep forever, bear.

As I write this I am enjoying a cup of Celestial Seasonings antioxidant green tea, possibly to the detriment of my health. Last night I ran across this article on Facebook, warning me that 90% of Celestial Seasonings teas tested showed unacceptably high levels of pesticides. You will notice that the article is on a site called Honey Colony, “where the hive decides what’s healthy.” I would rather doctors and scientists decide what’s healthy—precisely, it turns out, to avoid such problems of bias as presented by Glaucus Research, the investment group that authored the study and also happens to have shorted Celestial Seasonings stock.

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