The world's first global organic-cotton campaign gives five great reasons to eschew conventional cotton

Soil Association, GOTS Launch World's First Global Organic Cotton Campaign

ecouterre.com 05 Oct '12, 7pm

The world's first global organic-cotton campaign gives five great reasons to eschew conventional cotton

Have you cottoned on yet? That’s the question Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association , asked textile-industry leaders at the Sustainable Textiles Conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Echoing the slogan of the U.K. nonprofit’s latest campaign, which it launched in partnership with the Global Organic Textile Standard , Melchett urged manufacturers and retailers to address the economic and social damage associated with conventional cotton farming and processing. Up to 80 percent of the world’s cotton currently comes from genetically modified crops, according to the “Have You Cottoned On Yet” initiative, the first of its kind to promote organic cotton on a global scale. In India, the world’s second-biggest cotton producer, 95 percent of seed is controlled by a single company:

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