• @BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    96 months ago

    everything you’re wearing right now

    Much of that is cotton. I believe that in the “good” ol’ days the US grew that themselves. Start that industry up again, and you don’t need mass deportations across the border.

    • @Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      The US still makes massive amounts of cotton. That all gets exported to other countries before getting turned into garments and things.

    • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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      26 months ago

      Cotton takes a LOT of water to grow. And takes up farmland that could grow food.

      Most of your clothes are artificial fabrics these days. Or blended