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Different groups of organisms react to different ingredients in different pesticides differently, so to assume something that kills insects will have the same or any effect on humans is not guaranteed. What is deadly to insects or weeds can be totally harmless to mammals, and vice versa.
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Of course, again, the inert ingredients of a pesticide can also be nontoxic (many are edible). Sometimes the most dangerous part of a pesticide (organic or conventional) to humans (farmers or consumers) is not the active ingredient that gets all the negative press, but a different component of the pesticide that serves another function, and which is present in a greater percentage. Pesticides are more than their active ingredient.Even water is lethal if you drink too much, but nobody fears spraying water on crops will lead to water intoxication. You’d be ingesting nanograms of pesticide, maybe less, when the dosage needed to make you sick is in the tens or thousands of grams. Why? Assuming it was used according to regulations, in terms of when and how much was sprayed, and passed inspections before being sold or imported, the dose is far too small. Even if edible parts of a food are heavily sprayed with a nondegrading pesticide that is dangerous if eaten and more toxic than salt (and therefore much more toxic than glyphosate), in practice you would never suffer any ill effects from it, digestive or otherwise. Some sprays are dangerous if inhaled, but harmless when eaten. That applies to the farmers who use them… not to you.
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Recall I said certain organic pesticides are corrosive or cause Parkinson's.