OK, time for a rant. I love this planet, I love it so much that I have really made a conscious effort to change my lifestyle to be more environmentally responsible. My diet has changed to be a fishetarian (right; no cows, no pigs, no chickens, just good ol' veggies and some fishies) and I have plans to become a strict vegetarian again, my driving habits have changed drastically (from drive like your rear is on fire to grandma style), I compost, I collect rainwater for our landscaping, I recycle EVERYTHING, I'm trying desperately to find a reel mower on the cheap, and thinking about retiring the snow blower I bought last year, despite a terrible and painful lower back "issue", and wax up my trusty shovel this winter, the wife and I bought a pellet stove to use renewable resources for heating, last year our thermostat didn't go over 64 ALL WINTER, CFL's in every socket, I forgo any type of disposable bag whenever it's practical, and lastly I try to eliminate products with useless packaging. This brings me to my rant. I ran across the street yesterday to grab lunch (I try not to, but the A/C in my office is set to refrigerator temp (yes, another rant, but for another day. Let's just say that I have NO control over it))...anyway: lunch. I needed soup and a jaunt out on a perfect day to defrost myself. As I'm paying the lovely folks I notice that they have added fresh fruit to their menu. Wonderful!! I love apples and oranges. Wow, those apples look REALLY, REALLY shiny. Oh, that's why, they are wrapped in cellophane! WHAT!?!?? As if the wax they dip the things in wasn't good enough? Oh, and that wonderful skin that nature invented? Apparently that is useless too. To add to it all these things were already under glass so it's not like they would collect a ton of dust and that glass would certainly be a deterrent for all those folks that like to pick their noses then touch every piece of fresh fruit in the place. Why-o-why would anyone find the need to wrap a perfectly good piece of fruit in a toxic sheet? [deep breath] OK, I feel better now.
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sometime you'll have to come to one/some of the Worcester Vegan Meetups you'll have to drop the fishies and a few byproducts for the meal, but I think you'd like the frameset of the people there. Plus it'd be good to catch up.
[somehow managed to try to post this to the complete wrong item on my first try... brain moves slow in the AM]
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