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Shankara, respected farmer, loving husband and father, had taken his own life. Less than 24 hours earlier, facing the loss of his land due to debt, he drank a cupful of chemical insecticide. Unable to pay back the equivalent of two years’ earnings, he was in despair. He could see no way out. There were still marks in the dust where he had writhed in agony. Other villagers looked on - they knew from experience that any intervention was pointless - as he lay doubled up on the ground, crying out in pain and vomiting.
…Shankara’s crop had failed - twice. Of course, famine and pestilence are part of India’s ancient story.
But the death of this respected farmer has been blamed on something far more modern and sinister: genetically modified crops.
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The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops | Mail Online (via golden-notebook)
currently (slowly) reading ‘the windup girl’ has me freaked out about GM food and the future of the world. stories like this one of the farmers in india make the horrifying future seem all too close.
