Dear Executive Committee of Unilever: I am writing in regards to a potential toxic waste disaster in southern India. Your Indian subsidiary corporation, Hindustan Lever Limited, has dumped mercury in a hazardous fashion outside of its large thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, a tourist resort in Tamil Nadu. Local organizations allege that the mercury has been handled in a fashion that constitutes criminal negligence under Indian law and an act of supreme indifference to human and animal life by any moral standard. Mercury is a deadly toxin that causes neurological problems, foetal deformities, and kidney damage after even a small exposure. Your subsidiary's actions may well have injured their workers for life. I call on you to immediately halt any shipments of mercury that may be headed to this factory, pay for and coordinate a clean-up operation for the mercury that has already been dumped at the Munjikal dump site, investigate and eliminate any other illegal dumping activities in the area, investigate the damage to workers and the environment, and accept financial and moral liability for the damage that is found. Thank you. Sincerely,