Americans eat 1.5 grams of natural pesticides per person per day, about 10,000 times more than they eat of synthetic pesticide residues. Bruce Ames goes on in this paper to talk about the fact that very few of these have actually been studied in humans and we don't really know what most of the pesticides in plants do in human biology. I would say that plant pesticides probably have a longer history within human biology, and we can deal with some of them.

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