''You really feel like a failure,'' says Charles Boehmke, 44, who is clinging to his Minnesota farm after losing his animals and machinery because he could not repay a $136,000 loan. One of his neighbors, David Honsey, 40, filed for bankruptcy and said it made him feel like going into the barn and ''doing something you shouldn't do there.'' He has since rejected thoughts of suicide, deciding ''there is a higher power than the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. But I think they'll find a few farmers in the barn rafters before this is over." (Boyce, Jackson, Magnuson and Winbush 32).
"Many farmers admit that they plunged too heavily into debt in the heyday of the 1970s, planting their fields from fence post to fence post. But they argue that that was precisely what federal bureaucrats and local bankers urged them to do." (Boyce, Jackson, Magnuson and Winbush 32).
Boyce, Joseph N. Jackson, David S. Magnuson, Ed. Winbush, Don. “Cover stories clinging to the land: hard-pressed farmers face a crisis of mounting debts and dropping prices.” Time 125.7 (2/18/85):32. Magazine
My source basically states that due to the huge debts farmers are confronted with, suicide becomes their only option. Also, this source also reveals that farmers are advised by authorized persons on how to run their businesses, and in the end the same authorized persons take away their business. This supports my perspective on how the CAFO system is non-beneficial to biosphere.
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