ono@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoLab-Grown Cotton Enters The Marketwww.forbes.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down10cross-posted to: technews@radiation.party
arrow-up1214arrow-down1external-linkLab-Grown Cotton Enters The Marketwww.forbes.comono@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square51fedilinkcross-posted to: technews@radiation.party
minus-squareQuokka@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·edit-21 year agoCotton is one of the worst things to grow in 99% of the world yet we do it as a cash crop. In Australia cotton farmers are turning rivers dry, and if you know Australia we don’t have much water to begin with.
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agothe worlds fourth largest lake was almost entirely drained by cotton cultivation
Cotton is one of the worst things to grow in 99% of the world yet we do it as a cash crop.
In Australia cotton farmers are turning rivers dry, and if you know Australia we don’t have much water to begin with.
the worlds fourth largest lake was almost entirely drained by cotton cultivation