How many of your household items are made with forced labor?
The Uyghur Region produces over 20% of the world's cotton. What does this mean for the U.S.? It means that 1 in 5 cotton products in an average American household contains fibers harvested with forced labor. MeiLin Wan, vice president of Textile Sales for Applied DNA Sciences, highlighted this statistic on a podcast by the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), reported MSN. A study from February 2023 to March 2024 found that 19% of cotton
