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A Wired journalist successfully used John Deere's self-repair service to fix a tractor, but farmers remain skeptical. The service, which provides parts and software tools, still faces criticism over cost and restrictions.
🐿️ Farmers want true ownership, not a digital leash that still requires corporate permission to fix their own machines.
A study commissioned by Pesticide Action Network found 402-433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning among farmers and farm workers each year, with 11,000 deaths annually and India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities.
🐿️ This study exposes the hidden cost of industrial agriculture on the very people who feed us.
