Comments on: Chinese Cotton Goes Green (or at least Greener) http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/12/chinese-cotton-goes-green-or-at-least-greener/ Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:35:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: What Peanut Butter Cost America : Red, Green, and Blue http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/12/chinese-cotton-goes-green-or-at-least-greener/comment-page-1/#comment-41215 What Peanut Butter Cost America : Red, Green, and Blue Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:56:22 +0000 http://redgreenandblue.org/?p=1845#comment-41215 [...] if peanut farmers drop their peanut crop, the soil will be used to grow an extra cotton crop, and that is a highly intensively managed crop, requiring irrigation, pesticides and fertilisers, [...] [...] if peanut farmers drop their peanut crop, the soil will be used to grow an extra cotton crop, and that is a highly intensively managed crop, requiring irrigation, pesticides and fertilisers, [...]

]]> By: Kay Sexton http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/12/chinese-cotton-goes-green-or-at-least-greener/comment-page-1/#comment-17844 Kay Sexton Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:11:59 +0000 http://redgreenandblue.org/?p=1845#comment-17844 Hi Ramon! Nice point. Hi Ramon! Nice point.

]]> By: Ramon Collins http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/12/chinese-cotton-goes-green-or-at-least-greener/comment-page-1/#comment-17732 Ramon Collins Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:00:56 +0000 http://redgreenandblue.org/?p=1845#comment-17732 Nice writing, Kay. You just give us the facts (ma'm), without editorializing. I agree, the sooner the Chinese stop emulating American agri-business -- profits before people -- the better off their textile industry will be. Nice writing, Kay. You just give us the facts (ma'm), without editorializing.

I agree, the sooner the Chinese stop emulating American agri-business — profits before people — the better off their textile industry will be.

]]> By: Kay Sexton http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/12/chinese-cotton-goes-green-or-at-least-greener/comment-page-1/#comment-17723 Kay Sexton Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:11:13 +0000 http://redgreenandblue.org/?p=1845#comment-17723 Hi Paulo, yes it's something of a concern isn't it, that the business model China has chosen is non-organic and somewhat monopolistic? But having seen some cotton production facilities there, I've got to say that almost anything would be an improvement on the current water and pesticide intensive regime. Hi Paulo, yes it's something of a concern isn't it, that the business model China has chosen is non-organic and somewhat monopolistic?

But having seen some cotton production facilities there, I've got to say that almost anything would be an improvement on the current water and pesticide intensive regime.

]]> By: Paulo Pereira http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/12/chinese-cotton-goes-green-or-at-least-greener/comment-page-1/#comment-17720 Paulo Pereira Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:31:29 +0000 http://redgreenandblue.org/?p=1845#comment-17720 Better Cotton is nor organic, itś not organic grow cotton. Better cotton is GMO cotton. That can't be good. A lot of people involved in organic textiles are against the "better cotton" iniciative because it stands against all that we care about, it's against farmers and Earth. I think hard to belive that going the GMO way and placing the control of the production in tha hands of a few large enterprises that will sell the seeds is good. It's not. It's politics and monopolies. Better Cotton is nor organic, itś not organic grow cotton. Better cotton is GMO cotton. That can't be good. A lot of people involved in organic textiles are against the "better cotton" iniciative because it stands against all that we care about, it's against farmers and Earth. I think hard to belive that going the GMO way and placing the control of the production in tha hands of a few large enterprises that will sell the seeds is good. It's not. It's politics and monopolies.

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