LotusOrganics.com press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Your Clothes Closet Is Affecting the Health of the Planet

FAIRFIELD, Iowa – August 6, 2005 - Ravaging hurricanes, extreme weather, increasing cancer rates, growing global poverty. Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh, My!  But, unlike Dorothy’s irrational paranoia in The Wizard of Oz, the ecological, social, and health problems rising in our global community today have been documented by science and attacked by powerful corporations and governments with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.  Conventionally grown and manufactured cotton is the most chemically processed crop in the world and has been found to be a major contributor to a wide variety of global problems. 

“When we think about global warming, growing cancer rates, deepening poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries, and even increasing chemical sensitivities, our clothes closets are probably not the first villain that comes to mind but our clothes can be a significant, quiet co-conspirator.” according to Michael Lackman, founder of the organic clothing store LotusOrganics.com.  Cotton evokes images of white, fluffy purity and many people think of cotton as being a natural, pure fabric.  The actuality behind conventionally grown and manufactured cotton reveals a dark side to the planet’s most popular fabric.  The staff at LotusOrganics.com has researched and documented all processes involved in the growing and harvesting of cotton and all the many steps in manufacturing woven and knitted garments from cotton fiber.  This article traces the path from field to fashion runway for conventionally grown and processed garments and for organically grown and processed apparel and has been published online at http://www.lotusorganics.com/articles/cotton_facts.aspx.  The article also explores some of the global social consequences created by U.S. Government policies on cotton subsidies.

“Our intent,” explains Lackman “is to encourage people to examine the interrelationships between all systems within Nature – from the individual physiology to societal organizations to global ecosystems.  Few people realize that simply by slowly converting your clothes closet from conventional, chemical toxin-based fabrics to organic fabrics the individual can have a significant and positive impact upon personal and community health, ecological balance, and even global trade balances.  All by doing a simple thing like buying clothes; something that you would have to do anyways.  Just buy organic rather can toxic.”  Amazing that the journey to improved personal and planetary health can actually begin in your closet.

About LotusOrganics.com
LotusOrganics.com offers purely beautiful and healthy organic and natural fiber clothing to women and men for work, school, yoga and exercise, casual wear, sleep wear, and on-the-town wear.  LotusOrganics.com also has a selection of pure organic cotton clothing for infants and babies.  LotusOrganics.com clothing is manufactured from organic cotton, hemp, silk, tencel, wool and alpaca under environmentally and socially responsible Fair Trade principles.  As an internet-based store, LotusOrganics.com ships their fine organic and natural fiber clothing worldwide. And shipping is free.  For more information, visit www.LotusOrganics.com.

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