I knew it, I should have listened to Milo and put my
money in Egyptian cotton...
Good for agriculture. It’ll be banned by the EU though.
Isn’t cotton racist? Are we allowed to say that?
Chocolate covered cotton, the men will love it. It’s good for the syndicate!
Eating cotton! It’s bad enough shrinking with advancing years. Now, I’ll also have to avoid hot baths.
Why is this news? I’ve seen cotton candy sold my entire life, and even enjoyed eating when I went to the county fair as a child.
If you don’t like it, you’ll be spitting cotton before you know it.
The funny thing about this variety is it comes out black and can only be picked by whites.
The only edible thing from cotton that I have heard of is “Crisco”, cotton seed oil.
Cotton candy? That’s raciss!
I wonder if this means edible panties will actually contain fiber?
I don’t cotton to it.
Those dang cotton pickers keep messing with our food supply.
The plantation was taken over by a new owner who decided his slaves should be better fed, so he provided them with plentiful garden vegetables, more corn, and pork.
After a couple of months the slaves sent spokesmen to the "Big House" to entreat the owner to "Please let us have our cottonseed back, We sho' misses it."
So, the owner gladly allowed them to add the (plentiful, waste) cottonseed as a component of their new diet -- and they flourished on it!
(Couldn't help but wonder if it really was the cottonseed oil that they really missed in their diets...)
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So --- this "new" cottonseed food might not be a bad idea...
TXnMA
(Full disclosure: As a youngster, I often shelled out cottonseeds and ate the seed pulp as a nutty-flavored snack -- reminiscent of sunflower seeds, piñon nuts, bull nettle seeds, or pumpkin seeds -- quite enjoyable, but lots of effort required...)
The new “normal”:
Burn corn aka ethanol.
Eat GMO cotton.
Whatever happened to “eat zhit and die”?
Cotton produces a chemical called Gossypol which is very effective at controlling insects, but also has a lot of nasty effects on humans and other animals. The AP article I’m going to link to in a little while mentions that chickens die within a week when feed straight cotton seeds. Simply eating oil pressed from the cotton seeds but not properly purified can make men sterile (over prolonged periods of time). Right now some cotton seed is feed to cows, which can break down small amounts of gossypol and much of the rest is pressed for oil that goes through a complex set of treatments to remove gossypol, making it safe for human consumption.
http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2009/12/02/edible-cottonseed/