Why buy organic cotton, bamboo, oybean fibre, and lyocell baby and maternity clothes and toys?
• Conventionally grown cotton accounts for more than 25% of worldwide insecticide use and 10% of the pesticides. Pesticides used on cotton are among the most hazardous. In California, five of the top nine pesticides used on cotton are cancer causing. • Children are at greater risk for pesticide-related health problems than adults. Millions of children in North America receive up to 35% of their estimated lifetime dose of some carcinogenic pesticides by age five through food, contaminated drinking water, household use, and pesticide drift. • It takes one pound of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to conventionally grow the three pounds of cotton needed to make a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. • Clothing comes into prolonged contact with your skin, and toxic chemicals used to manufacture and finish conventional garments are absorbed through your pores. Once absorbed by humans, heavy metals, carcinogens and other chemicals tend to accumulate in the liver, kidney, bones, heart and brain. T
