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Your Clothes Are Making Indian Cotton Farmers Commit Suicide | VICE United States

10.3.13

Your Clothes Are Making Indian Cotton Farmers Commit Suicide | VICE United States: A Center for Human Rights and Global Justice report describes the root of the problem: At the turn of the millennium, Indian farmers who had been given access to a wider range of products after India's market liberalization started buying genetically modified Bollgard Bt cotton seeds from the Gates Foundation-backed Monsanto corporation. The seeds were able to resist and kill the common American Bollworm cotton pest, making them an instant hit, with 85 percent of cotton grown in India being Monsanto-controlled Bt cotton by 2009.


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