I kinda wish I hadn’t read the article so I could live in a reality where the cotton fiber itself is like a chewy edible mass like I assumed when I read the headline
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You can at least sleep well knowing you are one of the few people in the replies who actually read the article.
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Cotton isn't a very environmentally friendly crop to grow - and
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this opens the door to a whole bunch of "eat my shorts" jokes
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Wasn’t this Milo Minderbinder’s scheme in Catch 22?
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Cool! Cotton Candy!
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Eat my shorts!
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Cotton SEEDS, that is. But still, cool. "farmers will produce fiber, feed and food from the same crop.”
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Essential research, funded by the edible lingerie industry.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1052794371957915648 …
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We shall call it . . . 'cotton candy'. *Scott Evil snickers*
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You're now edible. I'm so sorry: that was completely uncalled for.
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I just thought of something. Making clothes out of the edible fibers so that instead of it being added to landfills, it can be used to feed animals like pigs and such
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read the link.
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I did, which is why I commented. Didn't address my exact idea. Yes, it addresses animals using cotton for protein. It does not address using this as a way to also tackle the issue of clothes waste. I am suggesting using this development as a way to tackle both issues.
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This suggests clothes recycling as another solution, but I did find some stats about clothes waste here- https://www.thebalancesmb.com/textile-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878122 … ex. -85% used clothes end up in dumps in U.S. -15mil+ tons of textile waste generated yearly in U.S. -Synthetic cloth can take centuries to decompose
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One would have to factor in how much clothing is/can be made of cloth, effects of making cotton edible on other uses like cotton clothing, etc. But it does seem like there's potential for the solutions to these issues to overlap.
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