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Originally Posted by KimS
Thanks for the heads up Rachel!!
Thankfully I've just finished loading up my pantry with East Indian rice. Phew!
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I've been thinking and thinking about you...
I haven't bought any Indian rice since the 90s when I used to belong to a newsgroup where there were reports of Southwire having ground up its Cadmium waste (hazardous), put it into fertilizer and sold it in that fertilizer to India for its rice farmers.
Gingrich was involved with Southwire.
I recently read a story or heard on the news that at one point Indian farmers crops failed so badly that 1500 or so of the farmers committed suicide.
Here's a link about the hazardous waste, Southwire, and fertilizer...
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/...mm0395_07.html