[ShadowAce]

Better they die than humans.

Humans are not exempt. Bats/birds/other insects eat mosquitos. Other things eat those things. Humans may be at the top of the food chain, but we are VERY dependent on what's below us to keep us alive.

[pierrem15]

That's only ever been the case where a material like mercury directly harmful to humans is absorbed into the food chain and then eaten by humans.

There are 8 billion humans on the planet only because we live in an environment we have engineered to support us. The most ecologically destructive practice is agriculture, which purposefully destroys the native ecosystem to replace it with human-supporting food stocks. I flew once into Fargo on a beautifully clear day in early Fall. From 10,000 feet the world was a sea of wheat. The entire prairie ecosystem had been annihilated.

I would prefer that we don't forget our need for bio-engineering and instead allow irrational sentimentality to govern policy.

[Bigg Red]

Exactly.

[AFreeBird]

Not to mention fish, fish eat them in their larval stage.