| ▲ | forgetfreeman 2 years ago | |
Not a myth, but likely already forced out of the industry or dead by their own hand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers'_suicides_in_the_Uni... | ||
| ▲ | abetusk 2 years ago | parent [-] | |
Again, not an expert but Dr. Sarah Taber claims that number is inflated by considering farm employees, not farm owners [0]. The claim is that farm owners are no worse than the baseline but that farm employees, often times low wage, migrant or undocumented workers, are the ones that suffer from a high suicide rate. From the archived Twitter link: """ In other words, the farm lobby has stolen farmworkers' deaths as their own. """ [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201218002926/https://twitter.c... | ||