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I think that you'll find that in many cases the move to adopt those things like insecticides was incentivized by the government at many levels (ag grants, resea

I think that you'll find that in many cases the move to adopt those things like insecticides was incentivized by the government at many levels (ag grants, research grants, etc). So you now have conflicting messages by the government. "do this!" "don't do this!".

destitude 5y ago
Also corruption. Insecticides are big business and there is already evidence of corruption within EPA to placate industry.