You’re right. In the 80s I worked as a plant process engineer at Buckeye Cellulose, owned by P&G. We made the highest quality filter paper and rayon stock in the world. It was in fact P&Gs most profitable plant in the country of any type.
Despite what econuts would have you believe, products like this - made from tree cellulose, require enormous inputs of pines (plantation pines - grown and harvested by said companies in vast tracts of land here in the US). The myth that this county has been ‘deforested’ is false. There are more trees today than 200 years ago. The only concession I’d make is that the “old growth” is severely diminished, but where isn’t it?
I have friends who lease land in the SE to paper companies for pine growing/harvesting. I have seen those giant scissor looking machines that cut the pines down. They look so scary to me...as in horror fantasy about getting snipped in two by one.
I am actually surprised Cruz didn’t know most disposable diapers sold here are produced here..I guess he was just trying to “scare” mom’s by saying that.