http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/04/11/just-the-tips-man/ Crafting the Super-Natural Life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:42:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/04/11/just-the-tips-man/#comment-19437 The Worsted Witch » The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:10:25 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=167#comment-19437 [...] Wendy Richardson needs to blog more often. How else would I have found the U.K.-based Environmental Justice Foundation’s 2007 report, The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton? It’s a 40-pager, which may require more dedication than you currently have, but here is a sampling of the salient points, as outlined in the report’s Executive Summary, which is very worth a read-through. Global consumption of cotton, by the by, has doubled in the past 30 years. Cotton is the world’s most important non-food agricultural commodity, yet it is responsible for the release of US$2 billion of chemical pesticides each year, within which at least US$819 million are considered toxic enough to be classified as hazardous by the World Health Organisation. Cotton accounts for 16% of global insecticide releases—more than any other single crop. Almost 1.0 kilogram of hazardous pesticides is applied for every hectare under cotton. [...] [...] Wendy Richardson needs to blog more often. How else would I have found the U.K.-based Environmental Justice Foundation’s 2007 report, The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton? It’s a 40-pager, which may require more dedication than you currently have, but here is a sampling of the salient points, as outlined in the report’s Executive Summary, which is very worth a read-through. Global consumption of cotton, by the by, has doubled in the past 30 years. Cotton is the world’s most important non-food agricultural commodity, yet it is responsible for the release of US$2 billion of chemical pesticides each year, within which at least US$819 million are considered toxic enough to be classified as hazardous by the World Health Organisation. Cotton accounts for 16% of global insecticide releases—more than any other single crop. Almost 1.0 kilogram of hazardous pesticides is applied for every hectare under cotton. [...]

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