Thursday, June 21, 2007

South Africa Interested in Organic Cotton

"One of the images that the organic cotton movement uses in its publicity material is a photograph of a gaggle of children waving happily from the middle of a field of cotton plants.

Not particularly remarkable, until you read the claims made in the print alongside: that conventionally grown cotton accounts for about a quarter of total world usage of insecticides, including a number that are highly toxic to humans."


Read the article