One generally unknown fact is that conventional cotton crops use 3-5 times more pesticides than other conventional crops. Of all insecticides used globally each year, 25% are used on cotton crops. In the US it is now illegal to feed the "gin trash" (or leaves, stems and short fibers) of cotton crops to livestock because of the large amounts of pesticide residues. What do they do with gin trash? Well, it's used to make furniture, mattresses, tampons, swabs, and cotton balls. The creepiest part -- knowing that non-organic tampons sold are made from materials too pesticide soaked to feed to livestock (and they feed nearly EVERYTHING to livestock). Hmmm, I wonder where toxic shock syndrome comes from???
