Did you know #16| Cotton

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For as long as 7,000 years, cotton has been grown, picked, woven, and fashioned into materials as diverse as jeans, underwear,
shirts, and even animal feed! Almost 757.1 million liters (200 million gallons) of cottonseed oil are used in food products such as
margarine and salad dressing. Even products such as toothpaste, ice cream, and, of course, the paper money used to buy them, contain by-products of the cotton seed. This productivity comes with a price. Conventionally grown cotton use a total of $2.6 billion worth of hazardous pesticides, some of them the most toxic in the market. These include carbamate pesticides, as well as broad spectrum organophosphates, which were originally developed as toxic nerve agents during World War II.

Biotech cotton is now available on the market, and is planted over 9.8 million hectares (24.2 million acres) in the US, India, China, Argentina, Colombia, Australia, South Africa, and Mexico. GM cotton is engineered to be both insect-resistant and herbicide tolerant.

Sources-:1,2,3,4.

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