Green Options » organic farms http://greenoptions.com/tag/organic-farms Posts tagged 'organic farms' Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:33:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Organic Farmer Murdered After Protesting Toxic Dumpsite http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/11/13/organic-farmer-murdered-after-protesting-toxic-dumpsite/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/11/13/organic-farmer-murdered-after-protesting-toxic-dumpsite/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:33:45 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/11/13/organic-farmer-murdered-after-protesting-toxic-dumpsite/ An Indian organic farmer and anti-pollution advocate was shot to death on Monday while in the midst of exposing an illegal dumpsite on his property to the media.

Challa Krishnamurthy started a 20-acre organic farm in Gowribidanur, India with the intention to make it a model for how others should treat the land. But despite his efforts to keep his property free of toxic chemicals, he discovered that a local distillery and sugarcane factory had been dumping untreated waste onto his property as well as others.

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