March 14, 2006
Tuesday quickies!
- Snacking yesterday spurred a discussion on where "baby" carrots come from. A quick search turned up these (old) articles on the origins of bachelor carrots and a green advice columnist's take on the ethics of consuming them.
- Free coffee at Starbuck's tomorrow (Wednesday, March 15) from 10 a.m. to noon!
- I love The Onion: New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don't Want To Have A Country Anymore. "I already belong to a health club, a church, and the Kiwanis Club," Tammy Golden of Los Angeles wrote. "I'm a member of the Von's Grocery Super Savers, which gets me a discount on certain groceries. These are all well-managed organizations with real benefits. None of them send me a confusing bill once a year and make me work it out myself, then throw me in jail if I get it wrong."
Posted by rv at March 14, 2006 11:22 PM to quickies
From the green columnist:
When you buy precut and shaped baby carrots, you are contributing to a market trend for snack foods of all types. Marketers see the two-bite carrot bonanza as part of the rising demand for completely effortless foods. That "demand" leads to over-packaging and over-processing of normal foods, which is wasteful, annoying, depressing, and weird.
Must everything be measured by how it aids the insidious march of consumerism? Why can't we measure this one thing by its healthy replacement of Ring Dings in kids' lunches?