Today,Fasotex only prints designs on fabric, it does not turn the raw cotton into cloth like it used to.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

(SPEAKING) He goes on to say that with cotton, even if farmers do good work, they will not have anything to show for it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

So it provides export companies with financial help to lower their prices on everything from grains and soybeans to dairy products and,in this case,cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28