Miss-harvests caused by gen-manipulated cotton and the increased prices for cotton seeds and pesticides have forced thousands of small Indian farmers into suicide. The first insects immune to the manipulations were found and entirely new diseases were detected on the manipulated plants…
If you had to guess who or what in your house travelled 50.000 km in a few weeks would you guess it was your t-shirt?
Nowerdays the worldwide distribution of the production steps can cause trips of 50.000 km for one single peace of garment before getting to the consumer.
For each single production step clothes from conventional production are shipped between the poorest countries of our planet were there are produced under unhuman working conditions. Only 0,5 until 1 percent of the price of a garment goes into salaries for the-workers.
Some facts about conventional cotton production:
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