Pests
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As farming took off, people might have spurned bugs as mere
pests
that destroyed their crops.
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They control pests, and they're food for animals.
So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of
pests
and pesticides.
After World War II, we started using pesticides on a large scale, and this became necessary because of the monocultures that put out a feast for crop
pests.
And in the measure that we plant stuff, what we learn from agriculture is you've got to deal with pests, you've got to deal with all types of awful things, you've got to cultivate stuff.
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