Sunday, May 31, 2009

How GM Seeds Killed More Indians than World War II

How GM Seeds Killed More Indians than World War II | Use Celsias.com - reduce global °Celsius:

"One of the least-reported tragedies that resulted from globalization and corporatization of agriculture is the farmer suicide story of India - a tragedy comprising several hundred thousand individual tragedies, and possibly the ‘largest wave of suicides in history'.

Last month UK Independent carried a report titled '1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India', and cited falling water table, crop failure and debt as the reasons. The figure and the reasons are - at best - cruelly watered down versions of hard and sad reality. The actual piece of data is nearer 200,000 and the reasons both global and local."



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