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One hell of a company Monsanto uses child labor in its Indian cottonseed fields	Tom Philpott	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Photo: iStockphoto Monsanto dominates the global seed industry and churns out $1 billion a year in profit. Investors are so enamored of its market power and profitability that they've bid up its share price by nearly 1500 percent since 2004. So why does Monsanto rely on farms that use child labor to cultivate its genetically modified cotton seeds in India? From Forbes Magazine: Yothi Ramulla Naga is 4 feet tall. From sunup to sundown she is hunched ov ...
Topics: agriculture, business, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Up the Leak Without a Paddle New documents point to Union Carbide culpability on Bhopal		06 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Up the Leak Without a Paddle New documents point to Union Carbide culpability on Bhopal Since the Bhopal disaster in 1984, Union Carbide Corp. (UCC), owner of the leaking chemical plant, has denied responsibility, saying that its Indian subsidiary (Union Carbide India Limited, or UCIL) was solely responsible for the plant's design and management. But newly uncovered documents cast doubt on that claim, indicating that UCC provided ...
Topics: business, India, toxics (all these topics)

Bhopal -- or RuPaul	Ben White	02 Dec 1999	Muckraker
Friday marks the 15th anniversary of a very unhappy occasion. On Dec. 3, 1984, a Union Carbide industrial plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly cloud of the gas methyl isocyanate into the air, killing at least 6,500 people (and some say more) and injuring tens of thousands. Ever since, Union Carbide and Bhopal have been inextricably linked. But those who may not know a great deal about what happened in India won't find any enlightenment at Uni ...
Topics: air pollution, business, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Stories About: business AND India AND toxics