Argument Essay#1

Cargill Dow fabric from fabric

What are the things that you can do for environment? What are the eco-friendly products? These days the environmental issue is getting critical, and you hear “Global warming” often in school and in the news. Cargill Dow is a union of two companies, Dow, the chemical company and Cargill Inc. Cargill Dow LLC was built in 1997(New York Times, 2000). The key here is eco-business and green market place. They make Carpeting, interior furnishings, and outdoor fabrics.
Using fabric from corn will help us cut the use of oil. Using organic corn genetically engineered crop is better than using gas and pesticide in the process of making. Working toward making corn-produced clothes is green company.

First, they should stop using oil in our clothes. Eliminating the use of oil in our clothes is a good first step. In the global warming and many environment issued today, using limitless products is an advantage, because oil causes the taint of pollution. When they cut the use of oil in our clothes, they can manage financial risk, because oil is limited and not renewable.

Second, we should use organic corn. There are issues that growing corn uses a lot of gas and fertilizer. Also, they use pesticides. Making genetically engineered crop has the potential to be the greatest environmental impact. For example, Minnesota Cargill is the largest producer of corn, and also India already controls about 60% of the corn market;(Price, 2002) however, they should take advantage to use organic corn that is environmentally friendly. This is much better than using gas, fertilizer, and pesticides. According to the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in 2000, more than half of the $7.8 billion of organic food purchased in the United States was bought (Squires, 2004). There's wide agreement that organic crops have fewer pesticides. Also, organic foods may have some nutrients, mostly vitamin C. We should use organic corn for the environment, and also we should bring organic foods in conventional supermarkets. We can have many advantages.

Third, in order to increase the worldwide production, Cargill Dow should appeal to people more as an eco-friendly business in the world, because these products are creative and attractive at a time when we have a lot of environmental issues today. Also, the clothes are less expensive than other clothes such as blankets, pillows, comforters, and mattress pads. The clothes are less expensive than many eco-friendly brands. Generally, clothes shrink and colors fade, but clothes gain tensile strength after 50 or even 100 washes, too (Price, 2002).

Today people care about environment in life. Often you can see the labels, which show “environmental friendly”. A company sells the environmental and eco-friendly products and consumers buy these products for environment. However, it sets a higher price than other products. The problem is whether they make products considering the environment or not. Even though the product’s price is higher than that of others, people buy them, because they pay attention to environmental issues and impact. Some products and companies don't consider it, they just set high prices and sell them showing “environmentally friendly” labels.

Cargill Dow makes clothes and fabric from corn. Products are eco-friendly and are made from a renewable resource. Cargill Dow says that they press ahead with their plans to create not just the raw material, but also a marketplace for their organic corn. If they do mass market the product for use in clothing, Cargill Dow will be a green company.


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