Cravo Azul » blog http://cravoazul.com social and green design from Portugal Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:46:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 galo is born http://cravoazul.com/2009/06/galo-is-born/ http://cravoazul.com/2009/06/galo-is-born/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:30:39 +0000 admin http://cravoazul.com/?p=1256 galo-spieluhr1

]]> http://cravoazul.com/2009/06/galo-is-born/feed/ 1 Monsantos happy new cotton http://cravoazul.com/2009/05/monsantos-happy-new-cotton/ http://cravoazul.com/2009/05/monsantos-happy-new-cotton/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 16:24:37 +0000 admin http://cravoazul.com/?p=795 About 40% of the cotton fiber is already produced from genetically transformed cotton plants.

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…

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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.

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