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Why to buy organic cotton ?
The global cotton industry has a Worldwide Dark Side of which most of us
are not aware as we fill our shopping bags with inexpensive cotton shirts
from major clothing stores
- Five of the top nine pesticides used on cotton are cancer-causing
chemicals (cyanazine, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin).
- In the US, a 1987 National Cancer Institute Study found nearly
seven-fold higher risk of leukemia in children whose parents used
pesticides in their homes or gardens.
- The World Health Organization estimates that at least three
million people are poisoned by pesticides every year and 20-40,000
more are killed.
- Over 1 million Americans will learn they have some form of
cancer and 10,400 people in the U.S. die each year from cancer
related to pesticides
What is organically grown cotton?
Organic farming means working with nature rather than against it. This is the
guiding principle behind organic farming. Organic farmers use biologically-
based, rather than chemically dependent growing systems to raise crops.
While many conventional farmers are reacting to the ecological disorder
created by monocultures, organic farmers focus on preventing problems
before they occur.
In India, organic farmers intercrop cotton with pigeon peas and make
insecticidal sprays from garlic, chili and the neem tree.
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