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kleinbl00 · 1305 days ago · link · · parent · post: 99.9% of the pesticides you consume by eating fruit and vegetables are naturally occurring compounds made by plants
Arsenic is a naturally-occurring compound. So is cyanide. The thing about organically-approved pesticides is their use history is centuries long, while the toxicity of things like glyphosate, alar and DDT was contested for decades until it had created environmental catastrophes and utterly avoidable harm.