Funnily enough, I also found the article absurd and amusing, but from the opposite side. Without your comment, and others like it, I would have compared this ar

Funnily enough, I also found the article absurd and amusing, but from the opposite side. Without your comment, and others like it, I would have compared this article to one stating "don't raise your kids on fast food" or "teach children to swim if you want less deaths by drowning". In my neighborhood, nobody that I know uses active pest control for insects in their gardens. That is reserved for indoor plants. Snails are killed by most in some way or another, but even my parents - who are in their sixties - think that actively managing insect populations in the garden instead of just letting it reach an equilibrium died out in their generation. "insects will rock your world and kill everything, over and over, until you get them smacked down." Are there more problematic insects in the US compared to Europe? I can't comprehend that mindset, but maybe it's down to differences in flora and fauna between our respective gardens.