The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton

Cover......Page 1
Acknowledgements......Page 2
Title Page......Page 3
Executive Summary......Page 4
Introduction......Page 6
A Rich Mans Commodity Is A Poor Mans Crop......Page 8
The Chemicals in Cotton......Page 9
The Dirtiest Crop in the World ?......Page 10
The Major Hazardous Pesticides in Cotton......Page 11
How and why pesticides damage human health......Page 12
Acute vs. Chronic Poisoning......Page 13
Chronic Disease......Page 14
Children in cotton......Page 15
Something in the water......Page 16
Contaminated Cattle......Page 17
West Africa......Page 18
Uzbekistan......Page 21
The Sick Man of Central Asia......Page 22
Covered in Cotton......Page 23
In the blood......Page 24
Countrywide contamination......Page 25
Towards Cleaner Cotton......Page 26
10 Major hazardous pesticides applied to cotton and where they are banned......Page 27
Integrated Pest Management......Page 28
Driving Change by Buying Organic......Page 29
Conclusions......Page 30
Recommendations......Page 31
A Brief History of Pesticides in Cotton Production......Page 33
The Worst Chemicals in Cotton......Page 34
References......Page 37
Back Cover......Page 40