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Lead arsenate was a very common pesticides for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_hydrogen_arsenate
you know...we can look back and make fun of the romans for using lead water pipes even though they knew lead caused all sorts of health problems.
then...to this day not only do we still have lead water pipes, we decided to spray it on all of our food.
it's a wonder we survived as a species at all tbh
Wow! That's awful. Funny how DDT was seen as an "improvement."