Cotton Not So Good For The Environment

Learn about organic cotton, and how the industrialization of cotton agriculture is harming the environment...

http://www.care2.com/dailyaction/primary.html?da%5Btoday%5D=2005-10-25

 

Cotton is indeed hell on those beautiful souther soils. It's sad to see all that fertile farmland washing away in gullies, when it doesn't have to be that way

 

The most polluting crop on the planet,followed by tobacco, coffee, bananas and then lettuce. I saw a TV doco a few years ago that suggested that DuPont was instrumental in hemp banned because it could be processed into a superior cotton like fabric but unlike cotton, hemp does not require all those nasty chemicals to be dumped on the precious soil. Hemp can also be made into chipboard or high quality paper.The other thing was Eliot Ness and his untouchables had been put out of a job with the end of prohibition.
Let us not forget that CFC's started to become dangerous just when the patents to these gases started to expire and DuPont had some replacement gases with new patents on them. I consider DuPont to be the most evil corporation in the world. They make McDonalds look like boyscouts.

 

lettuce?

 

Yes lettuce is a very chemical intensive crop.

 

What's wrong with organic cotton? You mind copying and pasting the article on here for those of us who don't wanna sign up for anything?

This is what thrift stores are for anyway...

 

Ok... I live in the middle of a lotttttttttttttttt of farm land. Cotton is grown everywhere around me. Well I am up on a mountain, but in the valleys below me is where all the farmland is... I'm a mountain william...

It is very bad for the enviroment. I dont know much about farming because my family doesnt farm or anything, but from what I've heard from the locals... is that they spray this chemical on cotton to kill the leaves so that the actual cotton flower can produce a hell of a lot more. They call it cotton poison. It is the worst smell ever and I mean its obvious it sucks for the enviroment, it runs off into local streams and rivers. But the smell is soooooooooo bad.

 

During the 1930s, DuPont was developing technology for manufacturing nylon. The only way for them to gain a greater percentage of the market was to lobby the government to pass laws that made hemp illegal.

Amen! A classic case of corporate welfare at work!

 

It is very difficult to grow organically. Nobody wants to pay the extra price for organic cotton and even if you do get a crop the yeild per acre is much lower. Not a commercially feasible proposition.

 

Check out this link
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/grow/default.htm

 

Wait, so what is it okay to wear then? ... that's not harmful to our environment. I don't wear leather, or wool, or fur, I only wear cotton. So what is it now I can wear that won't hurt anything? I'm really confused. :/

 

Leather vs. PVC, wool vs. synthetics, you can tack on an environmental cost to any material. The ideal is to consume less. BTW, a second-hand wool sweater is less environmentally damaging than a brand new organic cotton sweater.

 

Hemp can replace most cotton products, and is more durable and, since it uses a tiny fraction of the amt of pesticides that cotton requires, is more environmentally friendly.

 

cotton still better for the enviroment than leather

 

the biggest bad thing is the mindfuck: fashion, making us buy new all the time. If we were really confortable and happy with our clothes and our selves, then we wouldn't buy so much.

 

trust me as girl i have had tons of clothes, second hand, new, anything.... I think, this brainwash to think that attractiveness is so fucking vital...... Now, i know when i like something and i am gonna wear it. don't you see? it's in the system interest to give us a bad selfesteem, and complexes over our bodies: we are never satisfied and we can always "improve" our image: so fucking sad.... aren't you a model??? it's your chance to say fuck to the cloth industry/cosmectics bullshit......... It's an offense to be ugly nowadays.... i don't give a shit. As long as i am healthy and comfortable with my style, nobody is going to come and steal my body from me

 

You said it,lady!

 

Dude, cotton sucks. I did this project on hemp, and hemp is such a better alternative. It can be recycled more than cotton, doesn't need all those herbicides and pesiticides. It won't mildew, and it's softer. You can also get 2 to 3 acres of hemp to the 1 acre of cotton. How cool? Hemp all the way!

 

Quite, the reason for the need for higher yealds is because we consume too much, we could organically produce cotton at lower yealds if we replaced all the cotton fields with organic non chemically produced cotton on the basis of us recycling our old clothes and buying less, also hemp it seems could replace a lot of the cotton clothing. We only need the comfort of cotton on garments that are worn close to the skin, anything worn as a second layer upwards etc. could be hemp I guess. I agree completely with Freakon

 

I agree. Cotton is nown for have high pesticide count! I want to switch to hem or organic cootton, but is, so expensive!