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| ABOUT COTTON |
A few facts about the cotton industry:
Cotton crops make up 2% of the entire amount of crops in the world but consume over 25% of the insecticides used.
1/3 of a pound of pesticides are used to produce just one non-organic t-shirt.
cotton is not just used for clothing. Cotton seed oil is found in many of our food products as well.
Soil becomes deminished greatly which requires more synthetic fertilizers as well as an exceedingly large amount of water. |
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