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Monsanto and the Suicides Amongst Indian Farmers

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After reading the Monsanto rebuttals for their products, I decided to find out clearly why Indian farmers kill themselves and what that has to do with Monsanto. I had recalled that in Thailand many very poor farmers had gone so deeply into debt buying pesticides and GMO seeds that they had to leave their land or worse.  I recall that the king of Thailand encouraged them to use organic seeds, and showed them how to run a farm off the grid with all the machines run on the manure from the few animals on the farm.  Then I began hearing about the woes of the Indian farmer and I wondered if it was linked. It was.  Monsanto pulled the same thing on the poor Indian farmer.  The Indian government has not responded to the distress of these people caused, of course, by an American company, Monsanto.

 

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