Monday, August 6, 2012

Inside the Life of Your T-Shirt

A cotton flower
in a cotton field;
A cotton boll
in a cotton field
regulated by the Food and Drug Administration because cotton seed oil comes from cotton.

From that infallible source, Wikipedia (which is now back on line):
Cottonseed oil is a cooking oil extracted from the seeds of cotton plant of various species, mainly Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum. Cotton grown for oil extraction is one of the big four genetically modified crops grown around the world, next to soy, corn, and rapeseed (canola), mostly Monsanto products.[1][2]
Ahh. Monsanto.

Mooooving on... .

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