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Many Indian farmers have been driven to suicide due to debt from buying GMO seeds https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Ind
by RobotToaster 1y ago
Many Indian farmers have been driven to suicide due to debt from buying GMO seeds https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-geno...
- parineum 1y agoThat's a story of a farmer in debt because he had two consecutive years of crop failure. I'd be less apt to blame the expected cost of seeds than the unexpected crop failures for his misfortune.
- coin 1y agoThe data doesn’t support your claim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#GM_crops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#G...
- RobotToaster 1y ago> "A 2015 study in Environmental Sciences Europe found that farmer suicide rates in India's rainfed areas were "directly related to increases in Bt cotton adoption." Factors leading to suicide included "high costs of BT cotton" and "ecological disruption and crop loss after the introduction of Bt cotton."" The contradicting studies were mostly produced by "International Food Policy Research Institute, an agriculture policy think tank formed to promote the adoption of innovations in agricultural technology, based in Washington, D.C." which seems like an obvious conflict of interest.
- pfdietz 1y agoIsn't gray market Bt cotton widely used in India outside patent protection? (Or was, given patents likely expired by now.)