A KILLER BARGAIN
Globalisation may be the stepping stone for many developing countries, but do not fall into the water. You might die from it.
When a traditional European company has more than 50 employees, you can be almost certain that the CEO´s are planning to outsource their production to a poor country in the third world – far away from high salaries and expensive raw materials. That’s globalisation!
But can we trust the Western companies, when they promise the consumers that they have a high ethical, social, environmental and moral standard?
Disguised like potential buyers from a fictive chain of shops, the film crew reveals some of the harsh conditions at factories in India and documents how the production in fact is being done.
Farmers spraying their cotton fields with four to five times more than the recommended amount of pesticides – completely unprotected and not even able to read the warning-sign on the containers from the multinational companies.
Many of the poor and illetarate farmers end their lives at a charity hospital in the town of Bikaner. Doctors are currently investigating thousands of data from living and dead farmers, trying to establish knowlegde on the possible links between the extensive use of pesticides and the explosion af cancer in the so-called Cotton Belts of India.
- Original title:
- Når tilbud dræber
- Release year:
- 2006
- Director:
- Tom Heinemann
- Running length:
- 56
- Production company:
- Lynx Media
- Prizes:
- Best Documentary/Current Affairs at Prix Italia 2007 Prix spécial du jury at Festival International du Film d’Environnement 2007
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