Monday, January 26, 2009

India's waterways massively polluted by Big Pharma...

Many of the pharmaceuticals consumed in the United States are made in India, where labor is cheap and environmental laws are lenient on powerful corporations. U.S. drug companies are exploiting this situation to manufacture hundreds of millions of doses of high-profit pharmaceuticals in India, where ingredients purchased for a few cents can be re-sold to U.S. health patients for hundreds of dollars (the markup on some drugs is literally over 500,000%).

There's something else Big Pharma doesn't want you to know about its drug operations in India: Big Pharma's manufacturing facilities dump millions of doses of toxic pharmaceutical chemicals directly into India's waterways. More...

See also:

  1. How Big Pharma gets into bed with doctors and nurses...
  2. Orange drinks with 300 times more pesticide than in tap water...
  3. India: is Coca Cola guilty of unethical practices in Kala Dera?
  4. India:The Dongria Kondh prepares to fight Big Corporation with axes and arrows...

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