Very cool concept, making clothes in NC from locally grown cotton, and using solar energy to power the phones and computers. But good god almighty!!!! Using GMO Monsanto Round-Up Ready cotton!! HELLO!!!! How dead do we want to be??? How unpleasant do we want it to be on our way out??
Have they not read about Indian farmers who were duped into using Monsanto's GMO cotton seed??
In India the financial figures for the 2002 cotton growing season have finally been crunched. Although Monsanto convinced many of India's farmers that buying the more expensive GE cotton seeds would result in higher yields and better cotton, the reverse is actually true. Crop yields for GE cotton were 5 TIMES LESS than traditional Indian cotton and the income from GE cotton was 7 TIMES LESS than conventional cotton due to Monsanto's cotton having lower quality short fibers. As a result of the insurmountable deluge of debt accrued from paying more for the GE seeds and having a cruddy crop, more than 70 Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last three months.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/bt_cotton.cfm
Brush up on Monsanto -- "The World According To Monsanto," a 1 hour 48 minute video keeps disappearing, but right now, you can watch it here and here. And remember, if you're not buying organic, you undoubtedly supporting Monsanto. If you are supporting Monsanto ... well, watch the video.
Read TruthOut's review of the movie here, and what Greenpeace has to say about it here.
PAH LEEZE!!! If you have not withdrawn your support from Monsanto (and its reach is very wide and deep), please learn more and join the Millions Against Monsanto Campaign here!
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