Superbugs and Silent Spring

Rachel Carson's groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, awakened many around the world to the dangers of pesticides.  While many of the most egregious offenders, such as DDT and the dioxin class of pesticides were either banned or tightly controlled, there have been developed a panopoly of perhaps even more dangerous replacements.  The very ubiquity of many of these pesticides has deadened the warning signals to which we should be paying attention.  Roundup is one culprit.  Although it has not been shown to cause any human cancers yet, the steady use of this herbicide, especially on genentically modified crops has encouraged the emergence of "superweeds" which are resistant to it and many other weed killers.  This will probably lead us down the rabbit hole of further genetic modification.  At what point will crops like corn and soybeans cease to bear resemblance to their carefully bred ancestors?  Meanwhile, we pour ever more chemicals into our environment with few concerns for human health.  New studies have actually pointed to changes to human genes by these chemicals which actually doom children to obesity.  As a dedicated organic gardener, I felt I was doing my part, while my produce selling alter ego was able to shill conventionally grown produce by closing my eyes to the pesticides, fungicides and herbicides deemed necessary to feed the growing population.  Perhaps it is time to reevaluate.