China’s toxic harvest: A “cancer village” rises in protest | Marketplace.org
April 18, 2013
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.