Organic Fortnight begins today!
Soil Association
The Soil Association Organic Fortnight is the biggest celebration of all things organic in the UK. They are encouraging you to try something organic every day… It starts today, and if you receive our newsletter, you should have a £5 discount voucher to get you going… So why not start with what you’re wearing?!
We’ve been making our t-shirts from organic cotton for the last few years. Cotton accounts for around twenty-five percent of worldwide use of pesticides. The World Health Organization estimates that upwards of 20,000 people die every year due to accidental pesticide poisoning and around one million suffer from acute long term poisoning. Cotton farming conventionally causes long term contamination of important rivers, lakes and waterways.
April 26th, 2011 at 7:31 am
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