Read through a few "articles" of this blatant astro-turf for the bottled water industry. They've got peppy responses to a variety of reasons people shouldn't be using disposable plastic bottles. Here's a little summary of one:
There's even a petition (that 351 people have signed) espousing the virtues of bottle water including its vacuous nutrition information and the fact that donations of bottled water help victims of disasters.
It makes me feel dirty all over. I wish they had a comment section where I could vomit everywhere. But they don't seem to have any real user feedback method in place. At least I can't figure it out. Odd. They do have contact information for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a DC "think" tank obviously responsible for the repulsive content.
Basically they think that government regulation is unnecessary in the commercial market and consumers should buy whatever they want. Sounds good until you remember that government regulation is generally meant to protect consumers from the kinds of corporations that fund CEI.
They seem to take issue with publicly funded campaigns urging people to drink municipal tap water, but see no problem with corporations funding third parties to discourage the regulation of their industries. Assholes.
Solid Waste:See? There's no reason not to use plastic bottles! This kinda logic keeps rolling in:
plastic bottles are only .3 percent of our solid waste
nothing in a landfill will biodegrade anyway
we have plenty of space for more landfills
Footprints?:Sweet Samson, I wanna smack somebody. I've got no problem with plastic or bottles. Its excess that's the problem; packaging and transporting a product that is already piped to virtually every building in our country is excess. Sure, brining potable water to regions that lack it is worthwhile, but enabling this disposable culture is wasteful and disgraceful.
plastic bottles don't effect global warming
we couldn't change global warming if we wanted to
plastic is cheaper to produce and transport than glass or metal
we should make money while we can and adapt to climate change when we need to
There's even a petition (that 351 people have signed) espousing the virtues of bottle water including its vacuous nutrition information and the fact that donations of bottled water help victims of disasters.
It makes me feel dirty all over. I wish they had a comment section where I could vomit everywhere. But they don't seem to have any real user feedback method in place. At least I can't figure it out. Odd. They do have contact information for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a DC "think" tank obviously responsible for the repulsive content.
Basically they think that government regulation is unnecessary in the commercial market and consumers should buy whatever they want. Sounds good until you remember that government regulation is generally meant to protect consumers from the kinds of corporations that fund CEI.
They seem to take issue with publicly funded campaigns urging people to drink municipal tap water, but see no problem with corporations funding third parties to discourage the regulation of their industries. Assholes.
1 comment:
there was a great Episode of Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT about bottled water that was hilarious.
people are fucking sheep. that's why they will believe the crap the bottled water companies tell them.
if you dont buy tap water in a plastic bottle that we shipped halfway around the world, the terrorists win.
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