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 Just Be Threads uses 100% certified organic cotton t-shirts in a variety of colors created through the use of earth friendly, low-impact dyes. Conventionally grown cotton crops are among the most intensively and indiscriminately sprayed field crops in the world. These toxic chemicals are harmful to the environment. They are harmful to humans. They are in our earth, they contaminate ground and surface water, and they negatively impact plants, fish, birds and other wildlife. It takes about 1/3 lb of chemicals to produce 1 t-shirt. At least 107 active ingredients in pesticides are carcinogenic.
Organic growing techniques are biologically based, not dependent upon toxic chemicals.
Organic cotton is grown from untreated and non genetically modified seeds.
Organic cotton growing practices builds strong, fertile soil through crop rotation and the use of organic compost, in turn the soil retains water more efficiently through increased organic matter. Therefore, chemical fertilizers are unnecessary.
Organic cotton growers introduce beneficial insects in a timely fashion throughout the growing season in order to control cotton pests, thereby eliminating the need for insecticides.
Organic cotton growers control weed growth through hand hoeing rather than using herbicides.
Organic cotton growers rely on lack of water and seasonal freezes for defoliation in order to harvest the cotton rather than spray chemical cotton defoliants which are the most toxic of the farm chemicals currently available. Most organic growers rely on the hand-picked method, though some farming operations still use machines for harvesting.
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