No, I don't fear pesticides. I am rational enough to realise that there are positives and negatives involved in their uses. From what little I understand about them, I think it worth giving them a long, hard look about how they are used, on what and where. Many, many crops benefit - but perhaps pesticides are used as a 'cure all' rather than targeted at specific and vulnerable areas of food production.
According to this www.pinterest.com/pin/63050463507505599/ it would seem that in some areas at least, consumers have a choice.
It is crop spraying time here in my area of France. Big tractors with even bigger mechanical arms spread out, each with many nozzles, are spraying their away across the wide open fields. If the farmer notices people walking alongside these fields (me), he turns off the spray until I have passed. It certainly gives me 'food' for thought. Just being polite? I don't think so.