{"id":8264,"date":"2017-11-22T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/coton-lenvers-de-nos-tee-shirtsle-nouveau-numero-de-cash-investigation-mardi-28-novembre-sur-france-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T09:40:49","slug":"coton-lenvers-de-nos-tee-shirtsle-nouveau-numero-de-cash-investigation-mardi-28-novembre-sur-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/coton-lenvers-de-nos-tee-shirtsle-nouveau-numero-de-cash-investigation-mardi-28-novembre-sur-france-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"notice\">\n<p>It\u2019s the soft, natural fabric associated with high quality and versatility. Used to make everything from jeans and t-shirts to tarpaulins, oil and cattle feed, it powers a 37 billion euros a year industry. But is cotton really as pure as it seems? Claims of forced labour, pollution, and even slavery have stained its wholesome reputation, creating a market for \u2019ethical, responsible\u2019 cotton.<\/p>\n<p>In this investigation, we follow the production chain to find out how cotton is really made and examine the claims of the ethical cotton labels.<\/p>\n<p>We start in Uzbekistan, where cotton is the main cash crop. A dictatorship whose people are forcibly sent to the fields at harvest every year. In 2012, reports that children as young as 9 were being forced to pick cotton led to a global campaign to stop clothing suppliers buying Uzbek cotton. Has anything changed? Then, onto the spinning mills of Bangladesh, where workers live in prison-like conditions, to the indifference of contractors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the soft, natural fabric associated with high quality and versatility. Used to make everything from jeans and t-shirts to tarpaulins, oil and cattle feed, it powers a 37 billion euros a year industry. But is cotton really as pure as it seems? Claims of forced labour, pollution, and even slavery have stained its wholesome<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/coton-lenvers-de-nos-tee-shirtsle-nouveau-numero-de-cash-investigation-mardi-28-novembre-sur-france-2\/\" title=\"Lire la suite\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,73,74],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10815,"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/10815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pltv.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}