Collide-A-Scape blog: How was born the idea, a media myth even, of GM crops as big drivers of suicide rates in India

If you’ve heard that genetically modified crops in India have hurled a lot of poor farmers into such debt and despair that they are killing themselves by the thousands, I just read a well-reasoned corrective. A blogger and iconocalstic media critic has gathered up examples of where that line of thinking has taken hold and how it came to be. Recommended reading. As he writes, tragedies in agriculture in India of exactly this sort must surely happen but it’s no easy task to sort through it all.

• Collide-a-Scape – Keith Kloor: How Seeds of a False Story Took Root and Spread ;

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– Charlie Petit