This recent piece on the internet:
The Walmart Organic Cotton Monster Is Loose And Hungry. Prepared To Be Stepped On!"
Is an example of the
misinformation that proliferates the market regarding organic cotton .
According to interviews with large producers of organic cotton, there is NOT a shortage of organic cotton. The organic cotton market, according to research and resources is NOT growing as quickly as has been reported.
Wal-Mart is being a responsible corporate citizen, by recently committing to NOT increase their usage of organic cotton after the 2009 season.
(Take note and read, my previous posts dated: May 2,3 and 4th which actually address all of these issues)
Wal-Mart and Sams Club entered the organic cotton market
in 2004, yes... 2004 over four years ago. Take the time to Google
“How Wal-Mart Became Organic” from Fortune Magazine for substantiation of this
fact.
In 2004 plans and strategies were put into place by Wal-Mart and Sams Club, for the
projection and usage of organic and transitional cotton. Four to five years ago consideration was taken for being a responsible corporate citizen and making sure that if Wal-Mart was successful in selling organic cotton, they would never infringe on the supply in such a way as to "step on others" as this article suggests!!!
There has been a committed group of people at Wal-Mart the last four to five years ensuring that their participation in this market was indeed well thought out and responsible.
The misinformation as noted in the above internet article, is clearly conjecture.
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