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 mararket s been tested and proven to do a job, andnd we have fth in that process. myself as a 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 wtry to usese everything that's been tested and approved and recommended at certain times and how much. we do that both for the benenefit of the environment and the benefit of our pocketbook. you keep hearing about extra people in the world that need to be fed, , so we c't back off on what our production abilitieies are. we feel we have to keep improving our production abilities. and some of these products will contribute too that. >> the reason thatat we're worrd about neonicototinoids spspecificalally is because e 'e 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