Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Friday, September 25, 2009 12:17:23 PM
Here is another story out of the
LA Times Environmetal section that proves once again that nothing is off limits when it comes to what the enviro-nutters will attack.
There is a battle for America's behinds.
It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for "soft" (Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three ply and three adjective).
It's a menace, environmental groups say -- and a dark-comedy example of American excess.
The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. Environmentalists want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods.
And, activists say, there's just the foolish idea of the thing: old trees cut down for the briefest and most undignified of ends.
It is noted in the story that toilet paper and facial tissue combined accounts for only 5% of the forest industy. Seems they would want to target a segment of the industy that constitutes a larger part of the supposed problem.
We just need to go back to the old days...the outhouse and some leaves, or your, ehhh, hand.
But wait...there is this solution as well...
Then you don't even need TP!