At the Organic World Congress in Modena, two researchers for the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), Alexandra Perschau and Damien Sanfilippo, list the problems created by conventional cotton production. Their research is summarized in a PAN report: - Conventional cotton farming requires $2 billion worth of chemical pesticides, an economic and environmental burden for cotton farming. - Conventional cotton farming is responsible for 25 percent of global insecticide releases, more than any other si