The popular weedkiller has also been found in 80% of Americans’ urine, according to a 2022 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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    While i think that link is more correct, it is hard to take it serious when they call it a pesticide.

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      Pesticide is a pretty standard generic word (at least in British English) covering insecticides, herbicides, fungicides.

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        In murican, at least in my area, pesticide is used exclusively to refer to something that kills animals like an insectiside or vermin poison. We would just use herbicide when talking about a weed killer.

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        No, it is a herbicide. Those are very different things and no farmer would ever mess this up.

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          Herbicide is a subset of pesticides where the pests are herbs. You’re thinking of insecticide where the pest is an insect. Pesticide is the broad term that encompasses both insecticides and herbicides.

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          A. I’m not a farmer, I’m a scientist. B. All herbicides are pesticides… look it up. It’s like how all horses are mammals but not all mammals are horses