12 Oct '12, 8pm

Fund “Dirty White Gold,” a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side

Borromeo asks the question- when you bag a bargain, who pays for it? The answer traces back to the source, to the cotton fields of India. Over 300,000 Indian cotton farmers have killed themselves to escape debt, making so little that they not only can’t provide for their families, but sink even further into debt the more they work. Many poetically have drank the very pesticides they spray onto their cotton crops to end their lives, and thus ending their cycle of poverty, overworking and debt.

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