> Why do I hear most of you defending the monocultural trend and
> pesticide use?

Who is defending it?  Only one or two members I can see and they have 
links to the chemical industry more than to beekeeping as far as I can 
tell.  Anyone who thinks Randy is defending "the monocultural trend and
 > pesticide use", simply cannot read.  Randy tries to be a realist and 
is doing real work, unlike those who sit back and criticize.

I can see how he leaves himself open sometimes, by being quicker than I 
like to pronounce some material, "safe", and being open-minded.

> Is this truly the only way to feed the world? Who are we really
> feeding?

These are good questions.  Feeding cars is not something I find
a good use of vast acres of land.

> If I hear "if they stop using X pesticide, they will use the much
> worse Y pesticide" one more time, I'm gonna scream!

Be prepared to scream, since it is true\ -- at least until alternatives 
are proven to be competitive in all the applications and locations the 
chemical monoculture serves.

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