{"id":87263,"date":"2014-09-25T23:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=87263"},"modified":"2014-09-25T23:03:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T23:03:40","slug":"clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothes for a Change: Is Your T-Shirt GMO?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"You probably don’\u0080\u0099t think ‘\u0080\u009cGMO’\u0080\u009d when you buy a cotton t-shirt. But it’\u0080\u0099s Monsanto that now grows about half of the world’\u0080\u0099s cotton. On more than 40 million acres. The top three countries producing GE cotton? India, China and the U.S.\n <\/p>\n

Monsanto’\u0080\u0099s control over the cotton seed market in India has been agriculturally and economically devastating. Millions of small cotton farmers have been duped into buying Monsanto’\u0080\u0099s high-priced GE seeds, only to go bankrupt. In despair, more than 200,000 cotton farmers have committed suicide. Cotton is the most pesticide-intensive crop in the world. Cotton farmers and farmworkers, and the people living in cotton-growing communities, are exposed to deadly doses of toxic chemicals. Most of the world’s cotton clothes are produced in sweatshops, where people are paid low wages to work long hours in unsafe working conditions. In a tragic example of how dangerous conditions are, a building collapse<\/a> in April 2013 left more than a thousand people dead or missing. Inside that building workers produced many of the leading brands for the U.S.’\u0080\u0099s $340-billion dollar garment industry.<\/p>\n

It’\u0080\u0099s taken decades, but finally the issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food has gone mainstream. We’\u0080\u0099re poised to win what everyone agrees will be the deciding GMO labeling battle ‘\u0080\u0093 I-522, the Washington State initiative that will require mandatory labeling of GMO ingredients in food sold in Washington. Combined with recent wins in Maine and Connecticut, a win in Washington will force food manufacturers to label nationally.\n <\/p>\n

What’\u0080\u0099s next? More education and more consciousness-raising. Because truth is, most GMO crops don’\u0080\u0099t go into the food we eat. They go into animal feed, biofuels and clothing. Without proper safety testing. Without adequate environmental impact analysis. We can do better. Let’s win the GMO food labeling battle. Then let’s take on GMO animal feed, biofuels, cotton and clothing. \n <\/p>\n

More on OCA’s Clothes for a Change campaign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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