Toxic Trade – India
Asbestos: banned in the West sold to the East To see more go to www.youtube.com Follow us on Facebook (goo.gl or Twitter (www.twitter.com Asbestos illness is a largely unrecognised health come forth in India, but with a booming industry and growing imports an epidemic is imminent. This report reveals why this deadly product is making a comeback. “Asbestos has become a dirty word in the West”. Though, in India, factory staff often operate in a fog of carcinogenic dust and their family play in “toxic playgrounds”. Unsurprisingly, respiratory diseases plague those that grow up in the shadows of these factories. Although the Indian government is subsidising the use of asbestos in the building industry, they are not the main culprits in this morbid tale. The margin of asbestos is supplied by Canada, a people that refuses to use the product themselves. “It amounts to Canada being a purveyor of death around the world”. Selling Asbestos is huge business and the Canadians may be opening a new mine which will triple their profits. The human expenditure of this go will also be huge, bringing the morality of their actions into question: “it is such double standards”, says environmental activist Madhumita Dutta. A Film By ABC Australia Spread By Journeyman Pictures November 2011
eh, Journeymanpictures gets off by being constantly negative, maybe they can do a bit about people who work hard really earning a excellent living, which happens constantly, but tends to get ignored in lieu of watching people suffer.
I have by no means seen the Indian media do a tale on this. It seems like a marriage of convenience between the Canadian & Indian businessmen with politicians hanging onto them like leeches for profits. Excellent job journeyman for making videos that are relevant and meaningful. We want more!
13:40 – bahahaha
Let’s keep our earth clean, people.
c est triste,triste c est LA LOIE du PLUS FORT….sad sad sad
I’m sorry, but a.) those two mines have now been suspended and b.) Quebec wants it and unfortunately the federal government bends to their demands all the time, namely that Quebec does not want to deal with the job loss. Blame the Quebecois, not the Canadians.
@mrselfister Thats called projection.
Excellent Documentary, but the right way to say Hyderabad is “Hay-Dur-A-Terrible”
As terrible as the US is, at least it mostly does so in the open. Canada, on the other hand, wants to come across as this enlightened nation when, in fact, it is a pimp of the US. That is infinitely worse. If you reckon this is terrible, just read how Canada treats its Initially Nations people, which is worse than the US.
Fuck Harper!
I despise canada regardless
thank you for sharing. for taking the vex to trace it back to the people who should know better.
I by no means mentioned that Canada is the only nation in the business of exporting asbestos, but just because Russia supposedly exports more than Canada doesn’t mean the practice is morally just. The staff are not willfully ignorant, it’s the only way they can carry out a livelihood. No one in their right mind would let their family strave to death, not if they could do something about it, so they reluctantly work in an asbestos factory if that is the only job being offered in the local area.
So by anyone’s logic, if asbestos is legal and open for business than so should the legalization of hard narcotics. People addicted to these substances and abuse them knowingly that it will cause bodily harm to themselves along with other social constraints, but who cares right, that is their problem, so as long as we could profit tremendously. They demand, we simply are just the supplier. This is not an expose on Russia but on Canada, let’s keep our focus on that.
@GoBlessYourSelf I commented a tad to soon, I only realized it soon after. Though, I still argue with her claim, there is no way of proving of disproving that either.
So.. they’re going to place government regulations on asbestos buying? If the staff get sick they die from their own ignorance. What’s next, making selling cars illegal because people get run over? And as with asbestos there is the bike, a ‘squeaky clean’ alternative to that. Jp should make a propaganda film that critisizes my local diner for selling unhealthy food to unknowing ‘victims’. lol.
As much as I’d like to agree with you all, it’s, as the man said, ‘the poor mans roof’
@FromAlphaToOmega1 near the end of the documentary at 24:10 environmental activist Madhumita Dutta’s conclusion.
Did I say we should export asbestos, troll? Russia is the largest producer, about 500% more than Canada. What I’m saying is India needs to change its own laws, if Canada stops exporting, and Indian laws do not change- they will continue to import asbestos.
@GoBlessYourSelf Just because we can import asbestos to people like India doesn’t mean we should.
@GoBlessYourSelf And the spewl of “if they don’t buy it from us, they will buy it from someone else” is tiresome and is still no excuse. What’s incorrect with taking a privileged moral ground?
@GoBlessYourSelf No one blames Canada, it’s not one people that is at fault here, but a developed people should know better as this video hints. This is not an come forth of racism, so I don’t know where you extrapolated that notion from. No matter how you try to defend this or justify it, it won’t convince me otherwise. The fact of the matter is, it is not about who buys or sells it, any people that does not ban it is in the incorrect. This kind of malpractice is an abuse of power. Period.
Don’t blame Canada for racism, blame India for not taking care of its people. There’s no excuse their people in government ‘don’t know’ or don’t care to pass proper legislation. All business is governed by laws, and until laws and regulations change business will continue as usual; because there will always be an asshole who’ll screw anyone over for a buck. If Canada stops selling them, they’ll buy from Russia or China, don’t kid yourself.
I am a Canadian, sadly it is a god damn shame. My dad is an asbestos construction worker, he tells me how his bosses are worried to even go near those things even with proper protective masks. But they have no qualms hiring others to do the dirty work (who have small education or small options) & putting their health at jeopardy all in the name of profit, even with it being immoral & the overwhelming medical/scienctific eveidence of health related risks or death associated with asbestos.