Organic for everyone

Organic for everyone, the Wal-Mart way
America's biggest company is also the world's biggest purchaser of organic cotton.

The $300-billion global cotton industry uses more pesticides and synthetic fertilizers than any other crop. Cotton Inc., the industry trade group, says that's nothing to worry about, but you don't have to be a scientist to know that applying tons and tons of pesticides to the soil - more than 50 million pounds in the United States alone - probably isn't a good thing.
Just ask H. Lee Scott, the chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores (Charts), which in the last couple of years has become the world's biggest purchaser of organic cotton.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/25/news/companies/pluggedin_gunther_cotton.fortune/index.htm