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Re:5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion by bobbo3 on Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:27AM (#4078883)
Pesticide is a leading cause of suicide.

(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2006/np24/en/index...)

Farming is, in some countries, a high risk occupation for suicide.

(http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/resfarmers.html)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_suicides_in_India)

I agree that the hyperbole of the article is weird.

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Re:5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:44AM (#4078963)
ยปPesticide is a leading cause of suicide

Pesticides are a leading suicide method, not cause. Come on, it's the title of the article you linked to.

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