Do any of you have fruit trees near sites treated with chemical lawncare applications? Would you eat the fruit? Am I thinking too much on this?

There is no practical way to avoid this onslaught since you breathe the chemicals in with every breath you take, especially when indoors. Fortunately it doesn't seem to be killing us off at an adequate rate to reduce the human assault on our planet. We keep living longer even if our manner of death may be altered slightly (statistically as a group). There is no apparent canary in the coal mine.

Too bad your neighbor can't learn to love dandelions. Perfect lawns are a silly pursuit in my book. Mowed grass doesn't provide much nourishment- at least dandelions feed the bees.

I cannot agree with this anymore then I do.... what is left of my lawn has never looked as good as when there were dandelion. The same with clover. The root mass is 8 inches thick and is like cutting through shag carpet. They are also a very early season necter source here. The leaves can be eaten like spinach, the root can be mdae into medicine and the flowers can be used to make a butter substitute and even wine. Thats the whole reason its here, its useful!

The only thing I can see is that for your own peace of mind, just wash the fruit well before you eat it. There shouldnt be any real danger from eating the fruit. You would have more dangers from annual herbaceous crops or low growing ones.