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Killer Spray: Has the Pesticide Industry Caused Major Health Problems in India?
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Killer Spray: Has the Pesticide Industry Caused Major Health Problems in India?

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

India's Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s turned a country dependent on food aid into one of the world's top producers of cotton and grain. The film traces what that shift actually required: chemical fertilizers and pesticides applied at a scale India had never seen, sold and promoted by an industry eager for new markets. Farmers, doctors, and industry representatives describe what followed in the cotton belts and grain regions, from contaminated water supplies to clusters of illness among people who worked the fields or lived near them. The film lays out the economic case for the chemical push, the yields, the exports, the end of famine, against the human cost that surfaced later and was harder to trace back to a cause. It asks who bears responsibility when a solution to hunger turns into a public health problem decades on, and follows the people still trying to get that question answered.