What is wrong with traditional cotton farming?
Almost 25 per cent of all poisons, chemicals and insecticides that are used for farming, are used on the traditional cotton plantations. The death rate of the plantation workers is alarming, the heath damages are enormous and gigantic areas of cultivable land is ruined due to the use of poisons. This also contributes to the global warming of the climate. You as a consumer get fooled. Fooled into buying a cheap towel and bedclothes produced with poisonous agents, instead of demanding that professional players who run the textile industry farm the cotton organically, and pay the workers so they can live off their pay. Ecological cotton: The farmers we cooperate with in Egypt, grow their cotton without using poison, eradicants or chemicals. The same goes for the production from the farm, via the spinning, weaving and colouring. The towels from GlobalFairTrade are produced in accordance to the world’s strictest ecological certification schemes, from seed to cloth. What does Fair Trade real
