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22 children die after eating school lunch in India - space-time - 07-18-2013
[please don't make this political]
what a sad story
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/17/india-children-deaths/2523727/
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - cbelt3 - 07-18-2013
Terrible. Happens all over the world.
I was talking to a collegaue from India, who explained to me that India has gone very far in terms of infrastructure improvements for clean and safe water, etc.. in the last 30 years. I was pleased to hear that.
Such tragedies are continued proof that training and understanding may be lacking. And the application and regulation of toxic chemicals to foods is also poorly controlled all over the world.
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - bazookaman - 07-18-2013
This sounds pretty damning...
Authorities suspended an official in charge of the free meal scheme in the school and registered a case of criminal negligence against the school headmistress, who fled as soon as the children fell ill.
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - $tevie - 07-18-2013
I just read that it was poison and not tainted food.
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - archipirata - 07-18-2013
Looks like someone just grabbed the nearest container at the cooking oil production facility or somewhere along the distribution channel and that container was an old pesticide container. From the high levels of pesticide toxins found it was probably never even washed, just reused. The cook stated that she reported the chemical smell to the head of the school but was told to go ahead and use it anyway. Result. Dead kids. So sad.
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - Paul F. - 07-18-2013
The original story I read on Yahoo didn't sound right... they claimed the pesticide was from "rice that wasn't washed"...
In order to have THAT much pesticide on the rice, it would have to have been soaked in it.
The contaminated cooking oil, or deliberate poisoning, sounds more likely.
As for the headmaster running... I don't see that as necessarily being a sign of his guilt. Just a sign that he's not stupid, and knows that there are at least 44 parents out to kill him - guilty or innocent.
Not saying he's necessarily innocent, but I'm not judging him guilty because he ran... Yet.
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - Lux Interior - 07-18-2013
archipirata wrote:
The cook stated that she reported the chemical smell to the head of the school but was told to go ahead and use it anyway. Result. Dead kids. So sad.
Reports I heard this morning (NPR) were: Kids complained to the cook, cook tried the food, cook when to headmistress.
Cook is now sick, too.
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - M A V I C - 07-18-2013
As I recently heard it put, humans are a commodity in India, and not a very valuable one at that.
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - DeusxMac - 07-18-2013
M A V I C wrote:
As I recently heard it put, humans are a commodity in India, and not a very valuable one at that.
How many remember Bhopal? Within the lifetime of most folks on this forum.
"...considered the world's worst industrial disaster"
"The toxic substance made its way in and around the shanty towns located near the plant."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Re: 22 children die after eating school lunch in India - M A V I C - 07-18-2013
DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
As I recently heard it put, humans are a commodity in India, and not a very valuable one at that.
How many remember Bhopal? Within the lifetime of most folks on this forum.
"...considered the world's worst industrial disaster"
"The toxic substance made its way in and around the shanty towns located near the plant."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
I had never heard of that. "In June 2010, seven ex-employees, including the former UCIL chairman, were convicted in Bhopal of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $2,000 each, the maximum punishment allowed by Indian law."