Excellent, in-depth article – highly recommended.
@hannah-ananas @kropotkhristian @trans-mom @left-reminders as the main socialist blogs or socialist leaning blogs I’m aware of, I wanted to show you this. Maybe we can each get into contact with Dr. Rosmann and use our contacts to try and help abate this issue and spread awareness?
We were growing food, but couldn’t afford to buy it. We worked 80 hours a week, but we couldn’t afford to see a dentist, let alone a therapist. I remember panic when a late freeze threatened our crop, the constant fights about money, the way light swept across the walls on the days I could not force myself to get out of bed.
Farming has always been a stressful occupation because many of the factors that affect agricultural production are largely beyond the control of the producers, [..] Since 2013, net farm income for US farmers has declined 50%. Median farm income for 2017 is projected to be negative $1,325. And without parity in place (essentially a minimum price floor for farm products), most commodity prices remain below the cost of production.
In an email, Rosmann wrote, “The rate of self-imposed [farmer] death rises and falls in accordance with their economic well-being … Suicide is currently rising because of our current farm recession.” [..]
The US farmer suicide crisis echoes a much larger farmer suicide crisis happening globally: an Australian farmer dies by suicide every four days; in the UK, one farmer a week takes his or her own life; in France, one farmer dies by suicide every two days; in India, more than 270,000 farmers have died by suicide since 1995.
Why are America’s farmers killing themselves in record numbers?
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