Fight to save Italy steelworks, where cancer trumps starving In the impoverished city of Taranto in Italy, work that causes cancer is preferable to starving. Here, where red iron oxide dust from one of Europe's biggest, and most polluted, steelworks stains balconies and tombstones, a full-scale struggle is underway between the employees who rely on its operation to eat, and judges who have forced its partial closure on environmental grounds. A voiced AFPTV report.