Monsantos GMO Seeds Contributing to Farmer Suicides Every 30 MinutesAnthony Gucciardi The cause? Monsantos cost-inflated and ineffective seeds have been driving farmers to suicide, and is considered to be one of the largest if not the largest cause of thequarter of a million farmer suicides over the past 16 years. According to the most recent figures (provided by the New York University School of Law),17,638 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2009 about one death every 30 minutes. In 2008, the Daily Mail labeled the continual and disturbing suicide spree as The GM (genetically modified) Genocide. Due to failing harvests and inflated prices that bankrupt the poor farmers, struggling Indian farmers began to kill themselves. Oftentimes, they would commit the act by drinking the very same insecticide that Monsanto supplied them with a gruesome testament to the extent in which Monsanto has wrecked the lives of independent and traditional farmers. To further add backing to the tragedy, the rate of Indian farmer suicides massively increased since the introduction of Monsantos Bt cotton in 2002. It is no wonder that a large percentage of farmers who take their own lives are cotton farmers; the demographic that is thought to be among the most impacted. Many families are now ruined thanks to the mass suicides, and are left to economic ruin and must struggle to fight off starvation: We are ruined now, said one dead mans 38-year-old wife. We bought 100 grams of BT Cotton. Our crop failed twice. My husband had become depressed. He went out to his field, lay down in the cotton and swallowed insecticide. In India, around60 percent of the population (currently standing at1.1 billion) aredirectly or indirectly reliant on agriculture. Monsantos intrusion into Indias traditional and sustainable farming community is not only concerning for health and wellness reasons, but it is now clear that the issue is much more serious. This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information. 