They are pushing it as a "green" yarn, or enviromentally friendly....only corn takes a LOT out of the soil, I mean crop rotation is a must for corn farmers. If you don't do some sort of green-manure you can completely fry the soil of most of its nutrients in about 5 years or so.
I guess I don't understand why they would claim that regular yarn draws on fossil fuels....wool is organic, cotton is organic, bamboo is organic, acrylic/nylon/polyester are all polymers that are chemical based so perhaps I will have to do some research on them but I don't recall them coming from fossil fuels either...unless they, perhaps, use the unused part of the corn to power the factories(?)
I love the company's statement of "production and use" of their product means "less greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere"....it cracks me up when companies make these claims....I say PROVE it. Maybe the production end they could prove, but not the USE end....they have no control of how it is used.
Also, there is enough controversy surrounding "greenhouse" gases that the claims that they are the "chief contributor to global climate change" {made by several people, not just Ingeo fibres} has become nothing more than a cute catch-phrase used simply to sell the product.
Actually the more I learn about how the data is being collected, measured, manipulated the less I trust it.
I digress yet again....I was not going to get this blog into politics and here I stepped in a big pile of it....sorry. I will save it for my yahoo blog <
Anyhow, I will give the two products I mentioned before a try and get back to you all on it.
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