Care What You Wear!
A campaign to reduce children’s exposure to pesticides, toxins, and junk foods.
Every time you buy a new article of clothing your purchase has a ripple effect on the environment. The global apparel industry is the second-largest industrial polluter. From the growing of GMO cotton, to the production of wool and synthetic fibers, to the dyes used on those fibers, to the factories where clothes are assembled—each step of the way, soil is degraded, water is polluted, laborers are exploited. Can consumers help drive the fashion industry away from this toxic model, toward a more ethical, regenerative model? Yes, if we buy wisely.
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Read Current Issue — March 22, 2024
Newsletter #843: Hold Big Meat Responsible for Damaging Our Health and Planet
In This Issue:
- Stop Factory Farming! More 100% Grassfed Meat!
- 13 Reasons to Boycott Big Meat
- Mexico Smacks US Over GM Corn and Glyphosate
- Cross-Contamination in The Kitchen: When’s the Last Time You Cleaned Your Spice Jars?
- Frankenfoods v2: Exploiting the Bioequivalence Principle
- Thank You for Taking Action on Country-Of-Origin Meat Labeling!
- Food Forests Aren’t Just Nourishing. They’re Cool.
- What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?
- Legal Action Could End Use of Toxic Sewage Sludge on US Crops as Fertilizer
- Real Organic Project’s Groundbreaking Partnership with Germany’s Naturland
- A Battle to Protect Our Health
- When Starvation Is a Weapon, the Harvest Is Shame
- Can Black and Indigenous Culinary Solidarity Change the World? Sean Sherman and Mecca Bos Hope So.
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