Heather Callaghan, Contributor
Waking Times
Is the same thing that’s destroying the bees also crippling our farmers?
When Ginnie Peters’ farmer husband took his own life after a sudden mood shift, she really hit the nail on the head when she said:
These chemicals that farmers use, look what they do to an insect. It ruins their nervous system. What is it doing to the farmer?
No one can deny that farming is drastically different than it was in the 1950s, and today it requires extra demand, complete expertise and the stress of uncertainty. Most farmers don’t go into it for high profits.
The EPA, however, has long denied that the pesticide exposure they experience is directly tied to psychological sy...
