La Vida Locavore made a recent post, with some links to other articles, concerning the rising rate of farmer suicides in the US. It’s been a problem in many other parts of the world, including India and Australia, but now increasingly a problem in the US, particularly among dairy farmers.
The great depression of the 1930s brought images of farmers dumping their milk in protest over market prices that didn’t allow them to recover the costs of production. Similar protests have been taking place in Europe in recent months, and the same issues that brought farming subsidies and price supports in the past look to be re-emerging.
The world needs to rethink the current unworkable agricultural policies very soon.
