Care What You Wear!
A campaign to reduce children’s exposure to pesticides, toxins, and junk foods.
Every time you buy a new article of clothing your purchase has a ripple effect on the environment. The global apparel industry is the second-largest industrial polluter. From the growing of GMO cotton, to the production of wool and synthetic fibers, to the dyes used on those fibers, to the factories where clothes are assembled—each step of the way, soil is degraded, water is polluted, laborers are exploited. Can consumers help drive the fashion industry away from this toxic model, toward a more ethical, regenerative model? Yes, if we buy wisely.
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Read Current Issue — May 10, 2024
Newsletter #850: Mexico’s Right to Refuse GMOs
In This Issue:
- Using a Trade Agreement to Bully Mexico Into Importing Monsanto-Bayer’s GMO Corn
- Mexico’s Right to Refuse GMOs
- Experts Think Turmeric Can Help With Pain
- Pesticide Residues in Food Do Not Tell the Full Story on Hazards and the Importance of Organic
- Understanding and Fostering Resilience
- How One Woman’s Mission to ‘Rewild’ Urban Spaces Is Saving Native Bees
- Connecting the Dots to Grow the Organic Regenerative Movement
- Mexico’s New Food Rights Law
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- GMO Bio-Imperialism
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