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> The entire genesis of an allergy is your body treats a benign particle as a pathogen due to not recognizing it

And why the body does not recognize it ? Because it is tainted. Putting all kind of pesticides and other substances on plants does modify the "original".

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[Citation needed] for a pesticide connection.

Unless you are an insect, most pesticides are harmless for you. And for those that are not, nobody has proved a connection to allergies.

Perhaps those who make assertions based on "common sense" instead of evidence are pests, and thus pesticides are effective against them?

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