I like the idea of using genetic engineering to knock out certain species of pest, limited to the ones specialized to eat domesticated crops. You wouldn’t need

I like the idea of using genetic engineering to knock out certain species of pest, limited to the ones specialized to eat domesticated crops. You wouldn’t need to spray a cornfield if the corn moth was no longer around. And, we could always keep a pristine population of the peat locked away in some vault if it turns out making them extinct in the wild was a bad idea.