The True Cost Page #3

Today, as we do here,

are being held fashion shows and seminars

in more than 3,000 locations worldwide.

Good job! It was so ... really great!

Could you turn the body over to me a little more?

That is beautiful.

Fair trade is the public response

to correct social injustice

in a system of international trade that is largely dysfunctional,

where workers and farmers

They do not receive a living wage,

and where the environment is not considered at all

to make the products we buy every day.

Dacca, Bangladesh

My name is Shima.

I am 23 years old.

When I came to Dhaka, I was twelve.

Shima is one of the

40 million workers in textile factories in the world.

Nearly 4 million of those workers are here in Bangladesh,

working in almost five thousand factories,

making clothes for major Western brands.

Over 85% of these workers are women.

And with a minimum wage of less than $ 3 a day,

They are among the lowest paid in the world textile workers.

When I came to Dhaka, I stayed with my aunt.

When I started working in a garment factory,

my salary was $ 10 a month.

How is it called?

Mi hija? Nadia Akhter

I take with me to the factory a few days

but it is terribly hot in the factory.

And there are chemicals inside the factory

which they are very harmful to children.

So I can not have you here with me in Dhaka

because I have no one to look after her.

Workers should not have any kind of distrust

of their owners.

If they do,

there will be a good working environment at the factory.

Must respect, the owner pays us according to the rules.

If you do not have this kind of confidence,

You will not get the result.

I have formed a union at work.

I have been the president of the union since its formation.

We present a list of demands and principals received it.

Then they received the list, had an altercation with the directors.

After the altercation, managers closed the door.

And along with them, 30-40 employees attacked us

and they beat us.

They used chairs, sticks, scales

and things like scissors to beat.

Especially they kicked and punched

and they beat his head against the walls.

They beat us especially

chest and abdomen.

It is estimated that one in six people alive

in the world today,

working on some of the world's fashion industry,

so it is more dependent on the world labor sector.

Most of this work is done by people like Shima, voiceless

in the wider supply chain.

But to better understand the impact

that fashion has in the world,

we must return to where it all begins.

My grandparents came here in the 20s,

and this is part of my heritage.

I wonder why organic cotton growing,

because I can not do otherwise.

My grandfather was an old German farmer

I thought that we should respect the earth,

We are stewards of the earth,

and respect the life on earth.

We're actually sitting in the High Plains of Texas

and there are 1.2 million hectares of cotton growing in this region.

It is literally the largest plot of cotton in the world.

Only in the last ten years, 80% is now GM cotton,

genetically modified.

Most is Roundup Ready,

meaning that farmers instead of spraying weeds,

occasionally in their field,

or hire laborers to go for the field by removing weeds,

They are now spraying entire fields.

The cotton fiber is

from which most of the clothes are made

used by the world today.

And while growing our appetite for fashion,

cotton plant itself is redesigned to keep pace.

There has been this big push

towards industrialization of agriculture,

the intensification of agriculture.

So instead of old crop types

they were very in tune with nature,

They were related to the cycles

the calendar year, and seasons.

What you see now is a stepping

where land is almost reconsidered

like a factory.

What has been created is the general practice

of "we are trying million hectares alike."

We put a dose of chemical especially

and that's when these great ecological effects are obtained

and nobody has any idea what is really happening.

Nature tends to heal in small areas.

But when there is this large and comprehensive approach,

We do not really know what's going on.

For us, it does not reduce the amount of pesticides,

and chemicals that are cotton,

that's one of the advantages that reduces that.

Not in our area, where we are fumigating

millions of acres and dollars Roundup,

by all South Plains.

What kind of impact does that have on our soil,

with residues left to microbacterial level?

What kind of impact does that

about people in our communities?

Where is the cost of that?

Monsanto is proud to be a leader

of agricultural innovation sector

so these agricultural developments can do to help

double the performance for future needs in the world.

We are dedicated to the future of agriculture,

and delivering innovations to farmers

to help them produce more and conserve more,

while they are improving the lives of people around the world.

Together, we can face the challenges

Next Generation

and beyond.

After the wars,

where all these old factories

that made war chemicals, explosives, were scattered about,

Activist Vandana Shiva Environment

Western countries thought it would be a good idea

commercialize the Third World,

after all, it makes explosives industry

It makes nitrogen fertilizers.

And they began to introduce nitrogen fertilizers,

from the 50s onwards, after we became independent.

But nitrogen fertilizer

They do not work well with indigenous crops.

There is a problem of lodging.

So the whole system then organized

to redesign the plant

to accept more chemicals.

Bt cotton is cotton which has been added a gene,

of a bacteria to produce a toxin.

But Bt cotton,

which it is supposed to control a pest,

It has been offered because it is a way of making companies own the seed.

By patenting these genetically modified plants

Monsanto became the largest chemical and seed group in history.

I wanted to talk to someone who had worked with the company,

and I found out that a former director general of India

he was willing to talk.

One of my friends who worked in research,

He is working on these modified crops,

He came to my hotel for a drink.

We sat for a drink, and after a few drinks, he said:

"Hey, Jag, will change the type of business

you're doing in India. "

I said, "What do you mean?"

"They will get into the seed business.

And they will do the business of seeds of all crops,

so that we have a monopoly on the seeds,

and every farmer has to always come to us to buy seeds. "

That set off alarm bells in my mind.

If a poor farmer has to go to buy Monsanto seeds each time,

and a so expensive seeds,

at that time I had no idea whatsoever Bt.

Genetically modified seed, I had not thought of that.

Even a monopoly on seeds is very bad.

So farmers into debt to get the seed

because of the high cost, 17 000 percent more.

It is further into debt, because it violates the promise

to control pests, so they have to buy more pesticides.

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