Did you know about Cotton
For as long as 7,000
years, cotton has been
grown, picked, woven, and
fashioned into materials as
diverse as jeans, underwear,
shirts, and even animal
feed! Almost 757.1 million
liters (200 million gallons)
of cottonseed oil are used
in food products such as
margarine and salad dressing. Even products such as toothpaste,
ice cream, and, of course, the paper money used to buy them,
contain by-products of the cotton seed.
This productivity comes with a price. Conventionally grown cotton
use a total of $2.6 billion worth of hazardous pesticides, some
of them the most toxic in the market. These include carbamate
pesticides, as well as broad spectrum organophosphates, which
were originally developed as toxic nerve agents during World War
II.
Did you know…
Biotech cotton is now available on the market, and is planted over
9.8 million hectares (24.2 million acres) in the US, India, China,
Argentina, Colombia, Australia, South Africa, and Mexico. GM
cotton is engineered to be both insect-resistant and herbicide
tolerant.
years, cotton has been
grown, picked, woven, and
fashioned into materials as
diverse as jeans, underwear,
shirts, and even animal
feed! Almost 757.1 million
liters (200 million gallons)
of cottonseed oil are used
in food products such as
margarine and salad dressing. Even products such as toothpaste,
ice cream, and, of course, the paper money used to buy them,
contain by-products of the cotton seed.
This productivity comes with a price. Conventionally grown cotton
use a total of $2.6 billion worth of hazardous pesticides, some
of them the most toxic in the market. These include carbamate
pesticides, as well as broad spectrum organophosphates, which
were originally developed as toxic nerve agents during World War
II.
Did you know…
Biotech cotton is now available on the market, and is planted over
9.8 million hectares (24.2 million acres) in the US, India, China,
Argentina, Colombia, Australia, South Africa, and Mexico. GM
cotton is engineered to be both insect-resistant and herbicide
tolerant.
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