Click on this map and check if by mistake you bought some vegetables, cheese or meat coming from these places. This movie (click here to watch it) is only in Italian, but if you’ve some patience you’ll find that in the cities pinpointed in this map:
- water wells exploded because of bio-gas produced by illegal waste
- people are dying of cancer with a rate 6 times higher than in the rest of Italy
- sheep give birth to mutant babies because of high toxic levels of dioxin in the fields
- toxic wastes are used as compost (!) to fertilize agricultural areas
- shepherds have from 10 to 50 times higher concentration of dioxin in their bodies, and eventually die.
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