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Roundup isn't a pesticide, or an insecticide (as the charts above are labeled). Roundup is an herbicide, which is why it is so useful to combine with GMO crops. When you spray a field for weeds with Roundup, your crop doesn’t die because it has resistance built in.

More clearly, Roundup kills weeds, not bugs.

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> Roundup isn't a pesticide, or an insecticide (as the charts above are labeled). Roundup is an herbicide

Pesticide is an umbrella term for herbicides, insecticides, and other types of substances. If you've read the paper, it mentions that too:

> Pesticides are substances used to repel, kill, or control animals (insecticides) or plants (herbicides) that are considered to be pests.

You are correct, though, in that while insecticide use decreased (because GMOs help insect resistance), herbicide use has actually increased because of herbicide tolerance of GMO crops.

Ok! Thanks for the correction!

This was a new one for me, too.

This definition might be true in some places but the vernacular usage of “pesticide” by users is slanted towards targeting animal life and not plants.

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