Drop that Deer Park bottle because with "every sip" you are "hurting the environment."
ABC "World News Sunday" bashed bottled water, and barely included industry representation in a segment about a California restaurant that has stopped serving bottled water.
Eric Horng's July 8 report reinforced the decision of Chez Panisse to stop selling bottled water and lectured viewers about the environmental cost of making those plastic bottles.
“For us, it’s about doing the right thing,” said Michael Kossa-Rienzi, general manager of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, Calif. restaurant.
While that sounds noble, everything in Chez Panisse, from the furnishings to the tablecloths and the menu items, required energy and natural resources to ship to the restaurant – a detail ignored by the environmentally conscious Kossa-Rienzi and ABC’s Horng. In fact, the dozens of wines offered on the menu are worse for the environment to ship than bottled water because glass bottles are heavier.
Horng included two quotes from Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council -- a radical left-wing environmental group that holds an interesting stance on water.
The NRDC spokesman supported the anti-bottled water decision, but according to its Web site the organization also has a problem with tap water.
“Scientists estimate that each year up to 7 million Americans become sick from contaminated tap water, which can also be lethal. Pollution, old pipes and outdated treatment threaten tap water quality.”
Water, water everywhere but not a drop we're supposed to drink.
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I'm looking on eBay now for a
July 9, 2007 - 17:16 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveI'm looking on eBay now for an all-natural hemp water bag. I'll get back to you when I find one...
Aren't we supposed to recycle the plastic bottles? And recycling is supposed to reduce the amount of "new" pastic introduced into the system, right?
Between this story and the story about having promiscuous sex to prevent AIDS, I'm getting a little dizzy. I need to get off of this ride.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
all-natural hemp water baglol
July 9, 2007 - 22:51 ET by dahliatraversall-natural hemp water bag
lol
...still looking...I know t
July 9, 2007 - 22:58 ET by Mean Gene Dr. Love...still looking...I know there's one gotta somewhere...you can get anything on eBay!
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
I would like to see their kit
July 9, 2007 - 17:47 ET by Gat New YorkI would like to see their kitchen and the foodservice products they purchase. I will guarantee that most come in environmentally unfriendly packaging. Then there are the other beverages that also come in PET (plastic) containers.
IBWA is correct that all PET packages are recycleable.
Another out-of-control environmental loon who should first learn what he is dealing with before making outrageous charges.
Selective outrage
July 9, 2007 - 17:47 ET by nkviking75Why the selective outrage? Plenty of other beverages, including soda, fruit drinks, and more, come in similar bottles. I wonder if any of the reporters in attendence brought that up?
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Yeah, no kidding. I WANT MY 2
July 9, 2007 - 18:09 ET by nnptcgradYeah, no kidding. I WANT MY 20oz. MT. DEW!
Mother nature is a bitch - Ninth Corollary of Murphy's Law
Didn't elitist pigs like Holl
July 9, 2007 - 17:50 ET by mostlymoderateDidn't elitist pigs like Hollywood start the whole bottled water craze???
Yea, but it's out of fashion.
July 9, 2007 - 20:01 ET by general companyYea, but it's out of fashion. Funny they didn't offer any alternative, oh yea that's right, the left just ridicules, everyone else has to find the solution.
This whole thing is getting r
July 9, 2007 - 18:07 ET by RESTLESS 1This whole thing is getting ridiculous. Plastic is a by-product from refining petroleum, as is many things, including nylon. Everything that is consumed is produced in some way. What do they expect everyone to do? Meat processing, making plastic, making microchips, etc...etc..., all depend upon some sort of machinery and processing. They want to stop all processing and manufacturing and then they bitch to high Heaven when manufacturing jobs are cut or outsourced overseas. Every position these idiots take is diametrically opposed to the way our society operates. Their birth control pills come in plastic containers, their condoms are made from latex ( another petroleum by-product), the tools used by their beloved abortion doctors have to be produced, probably in factories that put out gases. If they get their way, we will all be sitting around Indian style, playing tiddly-winks while holding our breath.
Rest, aren't tiddly winks mad
July 9, 2007 - 19:02 ET by shannon20Rest, aren't tiddly winks made out of plastic? LOL!
These people are selling wine
July 9, 2007 - 18:33 ET by danboThese people are selling wine? The problems with wine is not just the bottle. It's the wine itself. The wine making process. You feed sugar to yeast. The yeast consumes the sugar and converts it to 2 things. Alcohol and CO2. So CO2 is a major byproduct of the wine. Not even counting the gas to grow and harvest grapes and bottle and ship it. (Home brewers have to be careful when they bottle the beer. Bottle it too soon it explodes.)
Shall we lecture Chez Panissi?
A lesson in how to go out of business.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein
an attack on all things good...
July 9, 2007 - 18:37 ET by sarcasmoPart of the evil of all this is that these freaks are going-after my beer. (I used to home-brew beer & mead, too. Ah, those were the days...)
JMR
Used to make a nice tomatoe w
July 9, 2007 - 19:01 ET by danboUsed to make a nice tomatoe wine. Tasted like a chablis with an after taste. Called it Creole Nectar. Most people liked it. But commented on the unusual but familiar aftertaste. But unless you said tomatoes. they never made the connection. It was a nice light golden white wine.
Tried mead once. Bottled it flat. Not thinking it was winter. The first warming spell, the yeast woke up....
I think homebrew beer was better than what I buy. And I like the beer flavor not getting drunk. So I could adjust the alcohol downward. And put lots of taste in. Unfortunately it is time consuming. And I never enjoyed washing all those bottles.
For people who never made it. How many weeks/months (for wine) was it putting off CO2.
I want warmers to feel guilty when the drink wine or beer. LOL OK I have a sadistic streak.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein
danbo,I want warmers to feel
July 9, 2007 - 19:06 ET by Blondedanbo,
I want warmers to feel guilty when the drink wine or beer. LOL OK I have a sadistic streak.
I'll second that emotion. With glee! And every time I lift a bottle or a glass, I shall try to remember that it agitates them.
Thanks for the great thought!
I wish it were so simple. But
July 9, 2007 - 22:31 ET by danboI wish it were so simple. But they have wierd logic. I've actually had the idiots tell me that the CO2 that comes from making wine is "good", "natural" CO2. Where as the CO2 from an SUV is "bad" CO2.
Stupid as it sounds. That's warmer science.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein
danbo....you forgot that wi
July 9, 2007 - 23:10 ET by motherbeltdanbo....you forgot that wine also contains sulfites!!!! The horror!!!
Ironically
July 9, 2007 - 18:33 ET by c5thenIn California where they import a very significant % of their water supply from Arizona and Colorado and Nevada, it might be better to use bottled water that comes from NY or ME or IL.
The platic bottles are recyclable.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic
Do as I say
July 9, 2007 - 18:42 ET by QueenMumHas Madonna heard about this yet?
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria
Lol Queen...Bet she has...me
July 9, 2007 - 18:56 ET by bigtimerLol Queen...
Bet she has...me thinks when she looks in the mirror she sees something she no longer is....no matter what.
It's all in the WATER!
This goes to prove.....She'll swallow anything!
bt...it's a trick mirror!!
July 9, 2007 - 23:11 ET by motherbeltbt...it's a trick mirror!! LOL
Evening mb....It has to be do
July 9, 2007 - 23:13 ET by bigtimerEvening mb....
It has to be doncha' think?
LOL....
Whatever it is we are doing,
July 9, 2007 - 18:49 ET by Mica the MagnificentWhatever it is we are doing, it is wrong.
We need the wisdom of liberal rock stars and restaurant managers to keep
looking out for us.
Without them, we'd all just step into traffic.
No bottled water for you - - Soup nazi, 2007
phony "7 million sickened from tap water" figure
July 9, 2007 - 20:28 ET by RJA quick look at the NRDC website shows no backup of their claim that "over 7 million Americans become sick by contaminated tap water." A search brings up the "statement of Erik D. Olsen, Senior Attorney (for) NRDC", testifying before a senate subcommittee, but all he does is claim "scientific estimates", and provides no backup.
I have to go, so I can't check further right now, but it seems clear that this group is just another phony enviro-scare group.
www.epw.senate.gov/107th/ols_3-03.htm
Pretty soon these weirdos w
July 9, 2007 - 22:31 ET by radiofitz34Pretty soon these weirdos will be telling us that we can't take a dump.
A one upsmanship play on She
July 10, 2007 - 11:21 ET by dscottA one upsmanship play on Sheryl Crow's one tp square? LOL
The whole issue is silly from beginning to end, once you buy into any of their myriad of false premises you get mired in a series of inane arguments based on absurd assertions which in liberal land require no basis of fact.
The bottom line is every standard of living has it's required specific type of energy consumption and CO2 emission. The only way to be carbon neutral is to be dead, because at some point you run out of land to plant trees. The entire premise also fails to acknowledge that some consequences of living have greater harm than others. You can be an Aborigine and still despoil the environment, just look at the land modification they did over thousands of years in Australia by burning brush. You can say the same thing about Bedouins in the Sahara by burning camel dung for fuel, you balance the loss of seeds and fertilizer versus maybe using a solar cooker during the day, but then you still have no heat during the night.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius
I'll pass
July 10, 2007 - 06:32 ET by Blogger Guy00001I'll pass by any restaurant that does that.
I'm a tappist myself.
July 10, 2007 - 08:30 ET by lumberjackI say go ahead and demonize bottled water. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. owns a bottled water company and I'm just itching to hear one of his fellow foil heads call him a traitor.
This whole AGW religion thing
July 10, 2007 - 11:36 ET by dscottThis whole AGW religion thing is unraveling under the weight of it's inconsistencies. It has become mob rule, where someone shouts something, the mob responds without debate to rectify the injustice. Bottled water is being lynched. What's next?
Sounds like this scoundrel recognizing he owns the product that is no longer PC, now must point the finger via PROJECTION to save himself from the lynch mob. RFK, Jr getting lynched by Gorites, now that's poetic justice!
Please, please, please, post the link show RFK, Jr owns a bottled water plant, let the lynching begin...
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius