@dx I mean, I can point you to past and ongoing research, but since I no longer have my university email, it may take me a bit longer to get access to articles and effectively check their funding sources. But the high level view I found was that it's best to use things like Integrated Pest Management, where you release predators into the field to handle pests, but that organic-certified pesticides did more harm to said predators than synthetic pesticides that were more targeted. It was also more beneficial to shrink field sizes to reduce monocultures, and instead plant different crops across the same area, which vastly increased biodiversity and reduced pest outbreaks, and reducing down to 6 hectares per crop didn't negatively impact efficiency. I did see some more favorable studies towards organic pesticides as well, but they had a lower efficacy overall than the above solutions. Would be happy to discuss more if we can have actual conversations about data instead of claims of propaganda.