Landmark 20-Year Study Finds Pesticides Linked to Depression In Farmers

November 16th, 2014

Via: Modern Farmer:

There’s a significant correlation between pesticide use and depression, that much is very clear, but not all pesticides. The two types that Kamel says reliably moved the needle on depression are organochlorine insecticides and fumigants, which increase the farmer’s risk of depression by a whopping 90% and 80%, respectively.

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One Response to “Landmark 20-Year Study Finds Pesticides Linked to Depression In Farmers”

  1. alvinroast says:
    November 17, 2014 at 10:53 am

    This adds a whole extra dimension to India’s GMO farmer suicides.

    There’s also the issue of correlation vs. causation. Some might think that there is a physical cause in the use of pesticides. Isn’t the moral repulsion on the part of the farmers enough of a reason for depression?

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