The myth of India’s ‘GM genocide’: Genetically modified cotton blamed for wave of farmer suicides
…”And if Indian farmers found the GM seeds to be uneconomic, then why weren’t they abandoning them, asked Mr. Herring.
“The peasant is constructed as vulnerable to crafty representatives of the market economy, as well as simple and gullible,” wrote Mr. Herring.
“In this narrative, over the last 10 years Indian cotton farmers have not figured out that they have been deceived — or are sufficiently innumerate that they cannot tell profit from loss and therefore do not know whether or not they are being duped.”
I would add one caveat to the above statement. When in debt, the burden and obligation is to honor that debt to be repaid until it is released by whomever extended credit. So like all individuals across the planet the basic instinct is to make good on the debt owed.
Therefore the why must also extend to being caught in a trap and sea of debt unable to find a way out.
By the same token, this logic can also apply to other situations in which people simply cannot tell the difference between stress of debt and the pleasure of living carefree without it and see no alternatives but death as the best option. Hence rampant suicide.
Let me just add here that an obvious problem with high suicide rates in India stems from it’s poplulation density relative to it’s land mass size. The two are inter-connected and if there is any hope to reduce high rates of suicide then both should be in better balance naturally, not through child management policies, but human effort to contain this serious problem. Of course if you include children born from rape victims, then this is definitely a very serious issue.
As for Monsanto, you know where I stand relative to it. No need to waste NRGY on a predatory company who faces extinction in the near future.
Live~NRGY 
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