Organic Cotton Should Be The Fabric Of Our Lives
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I’m a big fan of silk. Especially now with eco-options like peace—also known as vegan—silk, in which the little worms are left to their own devices to break open their cocoons and fly away to spin another day, rather than conventional methods that boil them alive in their cocoons in order to harvest the silk thread in one unbroken skein.
But I digress. This post is about cotton. But not just any cotton, organic cotton. Think those two are the same thing? Think again. According to the EPA, five of the top nine pesticides used in conventional cotton production in the United States (including cyanide, propargite and trifluralin) are known cancer-causing chemicals. Cotton eats up 25% of the world’s insecticides and 10% of its pesticides. It takes one-third of a pound of pesticide to make one conventional t-shirt, and two-thirds to make a pair of jeans. That’s a whole helluva lot of chemicals.
In contrast, organic cotton that’s grown, processed and produced without pesticides and other toxins is just as soft, wearable and durable as its chemical-laden cousin.
It used to be more expensive to get organic cotton goods. But as the demand has grown (thank you, Planet Green), the supply has too, and now you can get organic cotton sheets from The Company Store and towels from Macy’s. And you can get sheets and pajamas, like these from Coyuchi. I don’t know what they’re feeding the crops out there in Point Reyes, CA, but these are the softest, SOFTEST sheets and pajamas on the planet. Unimaginably soft. Like sleeping in clouds.
This should be the fabric of our lives.
