“Soybeans are the most heavily pesticide sprayed food crop so perhaps he was referring to that.”
I have been growing soybeans for a few decades. In some years, roundup is all that I ever use. In others, I have used a bit of residual herbicide, but never an insecticide.
Fruits and vegetables have far more herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides than any cereal grain. And, for the record, golf courses use more pesticides/acre than any ag application on the planet.
You really should Google Roundup + toxicity.
It’s the nastiest stuff ever unleashed upon the ignorant public.
A relative who has a greenhouse and ‘professional chemical permits’ had access to it long before it hit the store shelves and he used it to exterminate the Mutliflora bushes around our bog.
That was 10 years ago and we’re just now seeing an occasional frog or toad and we rarely see the salamanders that were formerly *everywhere*.
[or any of the small predators that survived by eating the aforementioned]
The peeping and croaking used to be deafening here on a summer night.
Not any more.
It’s as silent as a tomb, thanks to the kill-off of everything unfortunate enough to have contacted it and its residues.
It’s horrifying to discover that anyone is actually using it on -food- crops.