BBC reporting

They absolutely are, its not just pesticides its monocultures, highly intensive farming and lack of biodiversity leading to no food and no place to live for wildlife.
We’ve lost 90% of our insects over the last 30 years or so, with the insects gone so are the bats and the swallows.
Farmers aren't to blame for intensive agriculture, we are as a rapacious, greedy and overcrowded society. Producers and growers are responding to market forces, legislation and manipulation of food supply by politicians and big business. Farmers are left having to adapt to and operate in a commercial climate that they have not created.
We demand food at ever cheaper prices and our political class is hell-bent on driving up the population. All these gaping mouths need feeding and the corporate middlemen who monopolise the market and supply consumers screw the producers into the ground.
If we rewild our landscape to create an eco theme park, we'll just end up importing industrially produced food from overseas and depleting bio-diversity somewhere else.
 
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