Pesticides are killing the world's soils
I've watched the entire cycle in the past thirty years as a former agronomist.  We were able to genetically modify plants so they generated natural pesticides as a defense against insects.  This allowed us to stop spraying thousands of tons of less insecticides.<p>But the very people complaining about spraying chemicals rejected these new enhanced plants saying they weren't 'natural'.  We have been breeding plants to do things the past 170 years ever since Gregor Mendel and his pea breeding.  The only difference now is that we have better tools.  You cannot win everyone over.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel</a>