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Some days back Centre For Science and Environment (CSE) published an article stating that EU is pushing India and Canada to sign free trade agreements that will hurt their generic drugs.

Source: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/32993

While on the other hand this NGO has been funded by the European Union for creating pressure groups in India against endosulfan, a generic pesticide used world over for more than 5o years.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opJyp6KnaJw

If this is how NGOs help environment welfare, we better not have them in place.

sob, I tried your links, and couldn't get the second one to play. Do you have another link to the information?

The video shows up a letter from the European Union to CSE and clearly mentions that CSE was paid to create pressure groups against endosulfan.

Also the report on the basis of which endosulfan was banned in Kerala i.e. Dr. Vankar report was published by CSE's daily 'Down To Earth'. Recently this study was also found to be plagiarized.

Anyway to give you a better idea, check this:

http://realendosulfanvictims.blogspot.com/2011/02/endosulfan-ngos-funded-by-european.html