“Glyphosate is so harmful to humans. And it’s sprayed all over your oatmeal,” a social media user posted on X.

The man parades in front of the oatmeal section of a grocery store and says we should all drop this classic breakfast option due to its exposure to common chemicals used in agriculture. The business of producing food makes strange bedfellows, and this oatmeal crusader could find allies anywhere from the far right to the hard left.

The list of opponents to pesticides is long and diverse: It includes conservative health nuts and very online paleo types, libertarian corporate skeptics and off-gridders, haughty old-school liberals and conspiracy theorists like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the classic liberal hippies and environmentalists. They form an unholy alliance of otherwise modern people who argue for a regulatory regime that cracks down on these products and sends us back in time on food production.

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