Pesticides should be regarded in the same light as cigarettes an lead. Lily Harb-Geremia St. Catharines, ON Your national discussion about the use of pesticides is flawed. Pesticides kill pests. Insecticides kill insects. Herbicide kills weeds.
Fungicide kills fungus.
Termiticide kills termites. Rodenticide kills rodents. Dermacide kills skin bacterias. The broad stroke of the CBC misinformation paintbrush, as usual, groups all the above control agents under just one term - pesticides. That's probably OK with society do-gooders and granola scrogs.