[DoctorBit]

"Despite a government plan to cut pesticide use in half by 2020, sales in France have climbed steadily, reaching more than 75,000 tonnes of active ingredient in 2014, according to European Union figures."

That's an incredibly large amount of pesticides - over two pounds of active ingredient per French citizen per year.

[seszett]

And apparently the US used 1182 million pounds in 2012[0] which is almost four pounds per US citizen, and 20% of world usage.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-01/documents...

[ryanmarsh]

Considering the amount of food, by weight, a human consumes over a year only two pounds of pesticides is an incredibly efficient use as far as my experience. I’m impressed. I probably have to use a half pound per year for my small vegetable garden which might feed me for a month if I had a really good season.