claim: Oatmeal is the highest sprayed crop with pesticides, particularly glyphosate !!
evidence: Not only that, but non-organic oats contain the highest amount of pesticide residue than any other crop in the U.S., particularly the cancer-causing herbicide glyphosate. In February 2019, a "compelling link" was found between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma [2], and since then, over $10 billion to has been paid out to settle thousands of glyphosate-related cancer lawsuits across the country. The Environmental Working Group tested samples of Quaker Oats products and found that their oats had the most glyphosate per sample, with more than 1,000 ppb in more than 66 percent of the samples. That level of exposure is more than 60 times the safety level set by the Environmental Protection Agency, and that’s just legally speaking. However, legal is not the same as harmless. And unfortunately, more than 200 million pounds of glyphosate is sprayed on crops in the US each year, not just on oats, but on every GMO crop like grain, soy, and corn [3].