Rarely have I read a more biased, one-sided and agenda-driven piece of journalism than ths article in the Daily Mail. It’s about how Genetically Modified crops are leading Indian farmers to commit suicide. Their crops are apparently failing, leading farmers to become more and more desperate. Never mind that all sorts of other factors could be behind the failure, most notably climate change which has been far better established but which mail readers refuse to believe in; no, this must be due to the gm seeds the farmers were apparently forced into buying, and despite being rigorously tested must be inherently evil because they are new. Such biased, narrow-minded journalism really gets my goat. And what is the article based upon? Not numerous peer-reviewed studies but a four-day journey. According to this rag, people in rural India are dying slow, agonising deaths due to GM technology. That could well be the case – one must keep an open mind to the possibility – but the way it is presented in the article would lead one to believe that it is the only explanation.

I know I should be blogging about my life as a disabled man, but things like this really annoy me. Papers like this spread hatred, intolerance and stupidity, and the Daily Mail is the worst.