Pesticide is a leading cause of suicide.

(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2006/np24/en/index...)

Farming is, in some countries, a high risk occupation for suicide.

(http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/resfarmers.html)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_suicides_in_India)

I agree that the hyperbole of the article is weird.