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hmmm. Sort of. Pesticides are used to allow plants to survive the onslaught of insects that would otherwise kill the plant of leave it to weak to bear reasonable fruit.

Pesticides are also used to kill insects that carry disease. When DDT was made illegal, for example, malria cases increased because we could not control insects as well.

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