Went to the local hippy/healthfood/environazi coop the other day. There have been threads here on the SDMB in the past discussing the level of smug one is exposed to when going to such establishments.
When we go there, I can make a continous running comedy routine of comments while examining the various products and their labels or claims or whatever. The whole time the SO is trying to keep from laughing and at the same time telling me to keep it down lest Free Love, her daughter Gai, and the grandaughter Moonbeam hear my comments and be offended.
I discover a product. Its bowls/plates made out of palm leaves/frons. Okay. These arent even particularly big bowls/plates. Kinda small actually. They are disposable/one use only. Looking at them its pretty obvious that they would be one use only. They cost about 5 dollars a pop. They are sealed in plastic bags. They are, get this, MADE IN CHINA.
Expensive ass disposable china. Wrapped in plastic. Made in China. Shipped from China. And the palm shit was probably shipped half way around the world TO China in the first place.
But they are made of palm leaves! They are biodegradable! Earth friendly even! No chemicals or molecules or atoms or military industrial complex complications with these babies!
Good fucking grief. I wanted to detonated a dirty bomb right then and there.
Rather than buy 10 to 20 of those damn things you damn dirty hippes, buy a 2 dollar PLASTIC bowl, reuse the damn thing, and donate the 100 dollars or so you saved to the homeless shelter or to plant trees in the rainforest or sumptin. It would be better for mother earth and everyone else all the way around.
Bigfoot must be there, cause thats gotta be the biggest damn carbon footprint for a trivial product I have ever seen.