Suicide in agriculture.

We don’t talk about suicide as much as we need to, as much as we should.

It’s hard. Painful. Heart wrenching. Tragic. And scary. As I’m typing this post, my hands are shaking. /1 I’ve read studies that share farmers are 2-5x more likely to die by suicide than the general population. That’s hard. Painful. Tragic. & scary.

We need to talk about suicide more. We need to break the silence & stigma around it. We need to do more than post crisis hotlines. /2

Meat, land and water - a thread

You don’t have to go far to read headlines in the news or celebrities (cough Ellen) to eat less meat to save the planet. Many are concerned it takes too much water and land to raise a cow and therefore, we should eat less beef.  Is that true? For comparison purposes, I have a steak and my cell phone. Why the comparison? Half of the world’s population has a cell phone. Both of these require water to produce, and while half of the world’s population has a cell phone, beef is the one necessary for survival.