The the GM crops were devastated by boll worms. They also required double the amount of water. Then drought came.
Monsanto has conceded that the farmers have soaring debts now as a result.
Why all the farmer suicides in India, then? All crazies, reading leftist GMO propaganda?
“Why all the farmer suicides in India, then? All crazies, reading leftist GMO propaganda? “
Suicide rates have declined with the introduction of GMO seeds. Now about half the number of suicides compared to pre-GMO years.
The source of your suicide scare store is non other than ...
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Nice to see who you are following ...
“No one has done more to promote the narrative of Monsanto’s “seeds of suicide” than Vandana Shiva. A leader of the antiglobalism movement in the 1990s”
“She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement.[5] She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India’s Vedic heritage. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank.[6] She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society.[7] She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, and numerous other prizes.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
” reading leftist GMO propaganda”
Hmmm. The leftist propaganda is ANTI-GMO. Just look at who is leading it. SHIVA, a declared socialist.
Here is the source:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19347-monsanto-rural-debt-and-the-suicide-epidemic-in-india
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