I love Ted, but he'll have to excuse me if I put this in the BS file, along with global warming "facts."
To his credit though, Ted isn't looking to outlaw tofu production.
Soybeans are the most heavily pesticide sprayed food crop so perhaps he was referring to that.
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/wildlife/soybeans_wildlife.html
[Just a wild-@ssed guess. Who knows *what* is at the “center of his mind”?].....:)