By Calum MacLeod,
USA TODAYBEIJING — To fight the cancer stalking their village, some late-stage patients in Xinglong, southwest China, eat bugs every day, in hope of a folk cure. Farmer Cui Xiaoliang hopes for another, more substantial remedy.
"I wish all the polluting factories would move away, but I worry, even if they move, it will be impossible to clean up all their waste in a short time," says Cui, 40, who blames nearby chemical firms for the deaths by cancer of his father and an aunt.
China's rivers, coastal waters and countryside are increasingly fouled by industrial pollution that authorities and businesses are not doing enough to prevent, Chinese environmental activists say.
Its levels of pollution far outpace the West and is now a source of instability among ordinary Chinese, whose protests have forced the bureaucracy to shut down some operations. ...........(more)
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