Source: GENETIC LITERACY, 2/5/21


Pesticides tend to receive little else but bad press — bees are slain, lawsuits are filed, and proponents of everything from 'raw water’ to 'clean food’ cite the benefits of all that is 'natural’. Yet pesticides are vital to human health, nutrition, and global food security. Simply put, we cannot live without them. When we hear the word pesticide, we might think of neonicotinoid-based insecticides linked with the demise of bees in Europe. Or we might remember the days of DDT and the unintended effects of th

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