Pesticides are a necessary evil to guarantee that the tomato seeds you see in your salad are not worms. Pesticides come with many health defects, pollution and overall destruction of non-targeted species. Many scientists have been looking for an alternative or substitute for pesticides; and this maybe in the form of targeting the building blocks of life itself: DNA. Genetic engineering has already produced the Diamondback moth that has been plaguing cabbage. These moths are infused with DNA that makes all female larvae incapable of surviving. The following offspring would contain very few live females to continue the species’ survival. In Florida, they are considering genetically-altered mosquitoes. Studies performed have shown rapid decline, followed by elimination of contained pest populations.
