{"id":51032,"date":"2014-05-08T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=51032"},"modified":"2014-05-08T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:21:34","slug":"the-toxic-price-of-leather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=51032","title":{"rendered":"The Toxic Price of Leather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/88261827\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"The Toxic Price of Leather\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nOn the banks of the Ganges River in northern India, lies the city of Kanpur.<br \/>\nIt has become one of the most important cities in India as its leather industry has grown and it is now the biggest producer of leather products in the whole country.This success is coming at great environmental and social costs that are destroying the local Ganges River ecology and scarring the local people in the form of life-threatening illnesses. The city is now notorious for having some of the country&#8217;s worst water pollution which has been created by the leathery tannery industry which discharges waste water laced with toxic chemicals, such as chromium, freely into local waterways. Created by  Sean Gallagher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the banks of the Ganges River in northern India, lies the city of Kanpur. It has become one of the most important cities in India as its leather industry has grown and it is now the biggest producer of leather products in the whole country.This success is coming at great environmental and social costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122095,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122095","url_meta":{"origin":51032,"position":0},"title":"The Toxic Price of Leather","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"08\/05\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"On the banks of the Ganges River in northern India, lies the city of Kanpur. 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