[lihavointi HJ]
Guardiankin jättää tyynesti viittaamatta mihinkään kertoessaan tutkimuksesta, joka siis on mikä ja missä ?So who is telling the truth? To find out, I travelled to the 'suicide belt' in Maharashtra state.
For official figures from the Indian Ministry of Agriculture do indeed confirm that in a huge humanitarian crisis, more than 1,000 farmers kill themselves here each month.
It seems that many are massively in debt to local money-lenders, having over-borrowed to purchase GM seed.
Pro-GM experts claim that it is rural poverty, alcoholism, drought and 'agrarian distress' that is the real reason for the horrific toll.
But, as I discovered during a four-day journey through the epicentre of the disaster, that is not the full story.
In one small village I visited, 18 farmers had committed suicide after being sucked into GM debts. In some cases, women have taken over farms from their dead husbands - only to kill themselves as well.
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The GM genocideLopuksi:
Here in the suicide belt of India, the cost of the genetically modified future is murderously high.
Tästä löytyy artikkeliin liittyvä filkka, jossa Monsanton kommentti asiaan kuuluu lyhyesti suunnilleen näin: maanviljely Intiassa on haasteellista ...
