DaasYochid: First, I do thank you for the civil tone of the discussion- regardless of your criticism. Secondly, I took out a magnifying glass this morning and very carefully looked at strawberries. I could not see anything onv the actual body of the strawberry (I just don’t beliive that they are pink, otherwise,nothing will help)..).Under the leaves and on the white part ,there were some black strands- I believe it is part of the strawberry but, for precaution’s sake, you cut the top off, which is what I do.
I don’t particularly care about the so-called “experts”. They are not in my house, checking the strawberries. In modern agriculture, the pesticides are effective (they still use pesticides, just not DDT).
You may want to follow the chumros-fine with me. BWe will have to disagree on the amount of checking needed.