The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Plants exist to move their DNA forward evolutionarily they do not exist to feed humans kale doesn't give a animals different than that animals are completely are completely the same as that but plants are looking out for themselves plants can't move they can't defend themselves so what they have done is evolve Myriad Myriad pesticides and toxins to defend against rodents insects herbivores and other people or you know humans or whoever wants to eat them
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the majority of what we take in in terms of pesticides are from Plants there are thousands and if you look at the biochemical complexity of plants is incredible it's just it's overwhelming there's a chart on the second page 49 natural pesticides and metabolites found in cabbage 49 molecules how many of them are characterized in humans three we don't even know what these molecules do
and the idea is that in any given day most people on the planet consume about 1.6 grams of pesticides that are made by plants these are plant defense compounds and that we would consume you know 0.01% of that as things like glyphosate I'm not saying glyphosate is good but we need to realize that the relative contribution of pesticides from the plants that we are eating is mostly made by the plant to discourage animals from eating it
we are ingesting gram quantities of these on a day when we're eating a variety of plants
99.99% by weight of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves
We calculate that 99.99 by weight of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves
So, in fact, one of the reasons plants produce so many of the chemicals is that many of those chemicals, their function is to dissuade insects and other organisms from eating them.