India Is A Dumping Ground

Did you know where all the tonnes of steel from the World Trade Center went? In a matter of days, all of it was shipped to India. One would have thought that material would have been kept in the United States to help investigators look into the reasons for the crash. Someone, it seems, was very anxious everything be disposed off as soon as possible. Thankfully, a scrap dealer in India was available to melt everthing.

And recently, it was reported that Britain may ship blood and urine samples from National Health Service (NHS) patients to India for clinical tests. Apparently, the cost of shipping the specimen to India is a lot lesser than the cost of testing it in Britain. Once the tests are over, the results will be sent to Britain via èmail. What is not being said is that the specimen would be later dumped in India.

Britain is not just sending their human filth to India. Every year, tonnes of cow dung from Britain is exported to India. Britain is not alone in cow dung export, Switzerland and several other European countries do this to India.

Pepsi, it was reported, imported tonnes of used Pepsi cans from America and dumped them in India because disposing them safely in the US would have been prohibitively expensive. The story of how Coca Cola depleted groundwater resources in Kerala is well known. But what is not well known is that soft drink makers are allowed to tap groundwater in cities where millions don't get their daily drinking water requirement.

After the first Gulf war, India became the proud recipient of tonnes of metal scrap from Kuwait. In one instance, a boy working in a scrap factory in Tamil Nadu pulled the pin from a grenade and blew up himself and several others. After the second Gulf war, Americans are dumping scrap from Iraq, many of which contain unexploded ordinance and depleted uranium.

Importing scrap metal reduces the price of manufactured Indian metal. It also hinders domestic recycling efforts. India is already a country that boasts of the largest cattle population in the world. If we did not import cow dung from abroad, then our farmers would have an additional source of revenue.

For years, Western countries like the US and Switzerland tried to put pressure on the Indian government to stop supporting the GCMF and the NDDB. These countries had successfully made Sri Lanka totally import-dependent for its milk requirement by first providing free or subsidized milk powder and other products for several years and then withdrawing the aid after Sri Lankan milch farmers were totally ruined.

Now that India had outstripped the US as the largest milk-producing country and was planning to enter the American market, the American government forced Amul to mark their milk products with the inscription Contains milk from an animal called buffalo to deter American consumers from using it. This is interesting because milk produced by American farmers come from non-vegetarian cows. If the U.S. government wanted to play fair, then perhaps American milk products will have to be marked Contains milk produced by cows fed on ground meat and animal excreta.

Google search by American State Department (foreign ministry) exposed by reverse DNS

American State Department (foreign ministry) search for *American recycling in india*

This article was first published in September 2004 and last updated in February 2010.

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