China’s toxic harvest: A “cancer village” rises in protest | Marketplace.org

China’s toxic harvest: A “cancer village” rises in protest | Marketplace.org.

 

A hill of phosphogypsum rises above the village of Liuchong, in Hubei province. Dasheng chemical dumps the substance, a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer that contains cancer-causing chemicals like arsenic, chromium-6, and cadmium, above the river that feeds the village.

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