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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 02 A killer bargain.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2014. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2006. 
520    The killer bargain referred to by this hard-hitting 
       documentary's title is the availability of cheap consumer 
       goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don't 
       reflect the actual human and environmental costs 
       associated with their production in the developing world. 
       Consumers remain largely unaware of the conditions under 
       which the goods they buy are produced; this film makes 
       those connections shockingly clear. While some retailers 
       and manufacturers refuse to talk to the filmmakers, 
       workers, doctors and scientists testify eloquently to the 
       tremendous human costs of globalization. The film takes as
       a case study the production of textiles in northern India,
       from the growing of cotton, through the dying of cloth to 
       its final sale as towels and sheets in European and 
       American stores. A Danish company, Cheminova, produces 
       much of the pesticide used in the Punjab; while it saves 
       crops from insects, however, these pesticides are known to
       cause cancer and have long been banned throughout the 
       West. There are exponentially more pesticides found in the
       blood of Punjab farmers than in any other population in 
       the world. Whereas in 1998 there was only one cancer 
       clinic in the Punjab's 'Cotton Belt', there were six by 
       2004. Representatives of Cheminova and Aarhus University, 
       the largest stockholder in the company, have refused to 
       review the filmmakers' documentation. The WHO has lobbied 
       for decreasing the use of chemicals and for introducing 
       protective measures. One Indian doctor denounces the 
       purveyors of these pesticides as "merchants of death, 
       marketers of murder." The film next moves to Panipat a 
       leading textile producing center, where many retail chains
       buy their products. The filmmakers were able to gain 
       access to the factory of GS Exports only by posing as an 
       imaginary Scandinavian company, 'Beautiful House.' There 
       they find open tanks of fuming chlorine gas, banned in 
       Europe for twenty years and used as a poison gas in World 
       War I, a 'weapon of mass destruction.' GS Exports pays its
       workers less than {dollar}60 a month, including overtime; 
       if they join a union, they are fired. Approximately 50 of 
       the employees are children, and the workers are housed in 
       sub-human conditions. Dansk Supermarked wouldn't speak to 
       the filmmakers but claims that, as a result of their 
       investigations, they have suspended their contract with 
       the factory. ICA, another large Scandanavian retailer, 
       after watching the footage, claimed it would investigate 
       immediately. JYSK is the largest textile chain in Denmark,
       outstripping McDonald's in growth. They buy from Kapoor 
       Industries, a modern plant which discharges its waste 
       water into ponds, polluting the surrounding farmland. The 
       viewer watches as company security stops the filmmakers 
       from shooting, and Kapoor's executive director threatens 
       them with beating, personally confiscating their tape. In 
       its statement of corporate ethics, JYSK claims to be 
       improving the environment but refuses to confront the 
       filmmakers' evidence to the contrary. An economist 
       explains that, often, the availability of cheap consumer 
       goods is due to fact that they were produced by underpaid 
       workers in environmentally destructive plants. Some Indian
       textile suppliers use environmentally friendly techniques 
       but, because their products cost marginally more, many 
       western retailers shun their products for cheaper goods. 
       Corporations, even those with stated commitments to buy 
       from suppliers that respect their workers' rights and the 
       environment, cannot be trusted to enforce these principles
       if their enforcement would result is a cost increase. A 
       killer bargain, like Black gold, makes it clear that it is
       up to consumers to hold companies accountable for the 
       conditions under which their products are produced - even 
       if that means a slightly higher cost. An Indian economist 
       points out that globalization may create work in the 
       developing world, but often at the price of shortening 
       workers' lives. An Indian doctor adds that we in the West 
       should realize that the clothes we wear are often made at 
       the expense of someone else's life. The film ends with a 
       quote from Gandhi: "There is enough for everyone's need 
       but not enough for one man's greed." 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Textile industry|xCorrupt practices. 
650  0 Textile industry|xEnvironmental aspects. 
650  0 Textile workers|xHealth and hygiene. 
650  0 Globalization. 
650  0 Pollution. 
650  0 Documentary films. 
651  0 India. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
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