farmers like drew stabler of laytonsville, maryland say that neonics can be used safely and are indispensable to their business. >> well, i think that any product that's on the market has been tested and proven to do a job, and we have faith in that process. myself as a farmer, i've been farming 50, 60 years. i've been lucky enough to make a living doing what i like to do. and we try to use everything that's been tested and approved and recommended at certain times and how much. we do that both for the benefit othe environment and the benefit of our pocketbook. you keep hearing about extra people in the world that need to be fed, so we can't back off on what our production abilities are. we feel we have to keep improving our production abilities. and some of these products will contribute to that. >> the reason that we're worried about neonicotinoids specificallys becausthey're being used at an unprecedented scale. >> essentially, it seems to me the agri-chemical industry has persuaded everyone that they need these products as an insurance against a pest outbreak in their crop. but actually,