Hail to the farmers

Having said that, the real heroes of humanity are the farmers, not the doctors. Doctors help preserve existing lives, but in doing so they create a need for birth control, preventing further births; the total number of lives on the earth must remain roughly the same. Farmers, on the other hand, have been able to increase production of food over the years, thus allowing the earth to support more human lives. Of course, this is partly at the expense of animal lives, but one must have one's priorities.

A lot of credit should also go to the develpers and manufacturers of pesticides, since they also help provide more food for the world.

Um, make that "more food for humanity". Without the pesticides, the food would still be there, it would just go to "pests" instead of to us.