You appear to be attributing opinions to me that I don't necessarily hold. _ALL_ I was saying was that its misleading to compare suicide rates in Chinese elect

You appear to be attributing opinions to me that I don't necessarily hold. _ALL_ I was saying was that its misleading to compare suicide rates in Chinese electronics factories with the average rate for the whole of China. Thats all. I wasn't saying that the factories/corporations making westerns electronics are "bad" or that they are driving their workers to suicide. Thats not an opinion that I hold. But if someone wanted to demonstrate or disprove such links then they would compare the suicide rate in those factories with that in all Chinese electronics factories, and not China as a whole. I'm glad that the urban suicide rate is lower than for rural areas. As China urbanises this will mean fewer suicides. Progress. As for as Indian farmers - you are right, I should have written "partly due to the ready availability of agricultural chemicals". I do think, though, that it will be obvious to most people that not all suicides among Indian farms are by chemical poisoning. I didn't mention GM or Monsanto or "big bad multinationals", and I'm really not sure why you did. Feel free to reply, but this thread has gone OT and I've said all I want to say on the subject. Thanks!