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Organic Clothing
I have a leather jacket and my wife has a fur coat that got put into the closet when Bridget Bardot took over the seal hunt. Thanks for the memory jog. Furs are definitely an environmentally sustainable product that encourages conservation of wild animals and provides employment for a segment of the population.
We don't think about our skin being a way in which chemicals and other junk can get into our bodies, but it's highly absorbant and very sensitive to what we put on it.
Conventional cotton is one of the most heavily sprayed products in the world. It attracts several different kinds of parasites and other pesky little bugs, so farmers have to use pretty strong pesticides to keep them away.
Also, our white and pristine cotton doesn't come that way naturally. It goes through all kinds of chemical processes lile bleaching and dying, so from our bedsheets to our t-shirts those chemicals spend a lot of time against our skin.
Not only is it harmful to our bodies, but it's also harmful to the environment. All of those chemicals eventually run off into the soil which in turn gets redistributed in other places and the cycle continues.
I hope this helps. ;]
Erin
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Organic T-shirts
A long time ago people grew hemp in their back gardens, produced the fiber and cloth in their kitchens and made their own clothing. Back then the SS Constitution had hemp sails, the sailors had hemp uniforms, wrote on hemp paper and burned hemp oil in their lamps.
Then Dupont needed to sell his plastic shirts and Rockafella had coal oil to sell so we had to ban hemp as a drug.
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I was wondering if anyone could give me any information about organically made
clothing that I could use in an article for the University at Albany
E-Zine. I have a few questions if people could answer them it would be greatly
appreciated.
How is organic clothing better on the environment?
I have found that not many people have heard about organic clothing and
where they can purchase, what are some suggetions to help spread the word
about it?
Thanks!