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Hey, I’m back! Can’t say I’ll be consistent, since I’ve got a bazillion things going all at once… But I really felt the need to weigh in on how misleading SIGG has been to its customers. No, that’s putting it nicely: they’re liars. Remember this post about water bottles? Well, forget it. Klean Kanteen all [...]
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I’ve been hearing about this for a few days now, but today I decided to see for myself what PETA’S Save the Sea Kittens campaign is all about. What are Sea Kittens, you ask? Fish. They’re fish. Regular old fish.
In yet another ill-advised and ridiculous attempt to get people to reconsider eating animals, they’re trying [...]
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I’ve noticed something amiss lately with our toilet paper. Yes, I’m going there. We buy Seventh Generation toilet paper, the kind that comes individually wrapped in paper (not in the big plastic multi-packs: those suck). This TP is two-ply, it has been that way for years, and lately we’ve noticed that it has been downgraded [...]
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Today the BBC wrote an article about a study published by Edinburgh University involving cosmetic products and pregnant women. The study was performed on pregnant rats, which makes me sad, because animal testing sucks. But the team did show that various chemicals deemed “safe” for use in cosmetics caused future reproductive health problems in the [...]
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Do you know how animals killed for their fur usually die? By anal electrocution. New York State has just banned this practice, which is widely used in the fur industry because it’s cheap. Though it’s not like they banned fur or anything, which would have been a lot happier for the animals involved. [...]
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You’re a farmer. You’re resisting the giant agro-corporations, who are ready to swoop in and buy up your farm at the first opportunity. You’re fighting to stay afloat in a system that rewards over-production (and under-compensation), forcing you to rely on government subsidies in order to turn a profit. The subsidies are dwindling because of [...]
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At Expo, one can enter the show’s doors as either an exhibitor selling products, a buyer looking for products to order, a retailer looking to make deals, a consumer who’s there to do their own thing, or as a person who is associated with a media source, looking for either a story or to sell [...]
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Does anyone else think this is weird? Check it out for yourself. I know that American Apparel is selling more organic cotton stuff now, though these items are strewn among the shiny gold lamé leggings and unbearably tight tube dresses. So why are they selling Dr. Bronner’s peppermint soap? It seems like an odd match [...]
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“We will never offer non-fat milk. It’s not who we are.”
~ Howard Schultz, Pour You Heart Into It
When I was in high school, it was just about the time that coffee houses were becoming popular with my generation. I would sometimes go with my friends, but for the most part, the coffee was terrible, [...]
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Today Ted and I are at Midway Airport in Chicago, hoping and praying that we eventually make it home this evening. So far, we’ve had two flights canceled, and visibility is getting worse by the hour. It’s not looking so hot right now. But, at least we have our healthy snacks, and though I sometimes [...]
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I totally called it: Starbucks couldn’t sustain its organic milk program.
The company is dropping the milk from their stores next month, as I found out yesterday at my local Starbucks. When I asked the barista why, he said it’s because not enough people ordered it. And I’m sure they didn’t, because it’s so damn hard [...]
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After yesterday’s post in which I tore into Batter Blaster, I realized that I couldn’t deny you the above video. I can’t believe the company actually paid for it. At best, it makes the product seem like a SNL joke. Does making your potential customers question the authenticity of your product qualify as a good branding exercise? [...]
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Today I met Ted at a local Whole Foods Market to grab some lunch and do some grocery shopping. As we walked the aisles, Ted noticed a yellow can in the dairy case that said “Organic Batter Blaster.” Can you guess what this product is? It’s pre-mixed pancake and waffle batter that you spray on [...]
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This morning I was reading BoingBoing, and I came across a post titled “Twisted game simulates running McDonald’s.” I always did love The Sims, so the idea of being able to manipulate the inner workings of one of the most iconic (and controversial) American fast-food chains immediately appealed to me. After heading over to [...]
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