FARMERS IN AMERICA ARE KILLING THEMSELVES IN STAGGERING NUMBERS

SOURCE: CBS NEWS

Think about trying to live today on the income you had 15 years ago." That's how agriculture expert Chris Hurt describes the plight facing U.S. farmers today.

The unequal economy that's emerged over the past decade, combined with patchy access to health care in rural areas, have had a severe impact on the people growing America's food. Recent data shows just how much. Farmers are dying by suicide at a higher rate than any other occupational group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The suicide rate in the field of farming, fishing and forestry is 84.5 per 100,000 people -- more than five times that of the population as a whole. That's even as the nation overall has seen an increase in suicide rates over the last 30 years.

The CDC study comes with a few caveats. It looked at workers over 17 different states, but it left out some major agricultural states, like Iowa. And the occupational category that includes these workers includes small numbers of workers from related occupational groups, like fishing and forestry. (However, agricultural workers make up the vast majority of the "farming, fishing and forestry" occupational group.)

However, the figures in the CDC study mirror other recent findings. Rates of suicide have risen fastest, and are highest, in rural areas, the CDC found in a different study released earlier this month. Other countries have seen this issue, too -- including India, where 60,000 farmer suicides have been linked to climate change.

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What was once the backbone of societies is now reduced to corporate lap dogs. If you look at the suicide and the depression rates when it comes to farmers, fishermen, lumberjacks, truckers and so forth the numbers are almost as high as military personal who has been in combat. If people don't grow up and stop living some dream there's never existed all resources will be controlled by a few companies and you will only have access to food and products that's not even worth giving to bacteria.    

Suicides in India are result of Mon-satan pushing terminator seeds.

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