Millions of Tons of Chinese Grain Poisoned by Heavy Metals
Large tracts of Chinese agricultural land, and rice and other grains, are contaminated with heavy metals like lead.
Farm workers glean wheat in a field on May 29, 2011 in Huaibei, Anhui Province of China. Anhui province will put 125,000 combine harvesters into this wheat harvest season, and it's estimated that the work will be completed basically in 10 days. Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
By Hsin-Yi Lin
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