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Another Silent Spring
… that threatened agricultural production—a production of food deemed necessary to feed a burgeoning human population … and to feed their babies they demanded more and more food and fiber. Then they waged a war on insects and fungi … only selector is a single species looking for a more secure food supply , usually because of its own population stress. …