Is it such a shock that chemicals that kill one class of living thing (plants) may have some biological impacts in another class (mammals)? We have a long history now of inventing wonder weed killers and pesticides that later turn out to be unsafe. #Glyphosate https://twitter.com/Andreleu1/status/1282859258015387648">https://twitter.com/Andreleu1...

2/ In the end, the safest way to grow food is via intelligent intervention and subtlety. This goes for conventional farming as well - if you& #39;re going to spray, be targeted and do it to the minimum extent possible. But our entire system is designed to minimise human labour....

3/ And to keep farmers close to the financial edge so they& #39;ll always choose to play it safe even if the end result is people eating more poisons, because there& #39;s no financial buffers in the system.

4/ So instead we get overkill dumb spraying because it& #39;s cheaper and looks less risky than having enough eyeballs on things to decide when to intervene.