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19 Replies to “Soylent Green”

1. They, whoever they are, say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

2. Nope, you can sell me my groceries in a new plastic (I will accept paper, if I must) bag, or you will not sell me anything at all. Same goes for straws, except those have to be plastic. Really, these bag bans reduce very little waste, anyway, many people reuse the bags instead of buying small garbage bags or lunch bags. Once you work in the energy and water consumption to clean these made overseas reusable bags vs. a locally produced plastic bag, I’d wager the scale actually tips in favour of the disposable.

3. I’m sure it’s co-incidental that bleach is hard to find in Calgary today.

   Lot’s of people must be ordering delivery, because toilet paper is just as hard to find.

4. I’ve stubbornly refused to use the reusable bags (covered in store advertising) from the beginning. I’m the one who always asks for store supplied bags at 5 cents each (or whatever). Not just because I believe the reusables are full of germs, but because I refuse to follow the herd and do what the virtue signallers tell me to.

   1. I find myself apologizing and genuflecting in the checkout aisle whenever I “forgot” my reuse bags. It’s all a kabuki show for the leftist eco patrons in line with me and for the disapproving scowl from the UNIONISTA checkout clerk at my local Safeway.

5. Let’s not forget that green idiots also took away antibacterial soap ( triclosan as well as 18 orher anti microbial agents), and have effectively removed hot water from our public lavatories in the U.S.
   Canada may be ahead on both matters.
   In the U.S. there is no hot water, no antibacterial soap, and no border.

   1. COVID-19 is a virus not a bacteria; anti bacterial soap is useless.

      1. You must get your information from the MSM.

6. The recyclable bags need to be cleaned with Lysol wipes after each use. Then they must be left to dry. My worry is the cross contamination from the conveyor belt at a food store. Who, when and how thoroughly is it done ? But if I start to worry I’ll need to go to the liquor store for more disinfectant. Are those shelves as bare as the toilet paper aisle ?

7. Europeans, with their smug conviction that ‘fresh’ is best, have very little capacity to stockpile food on a personal basis. They’re hooped as far as ‘self isolation’ goes. Europe also doesn’t have the fresh water resources Norh America has. If Europeans also have the anti plastic bag mentality, that’ll just make things worse. Europeans are just like a huge cruise ship, slowly getting more and more diseased.

8. They also tend not to have large refrigerators and deepfreezes, due to the cost of electricity. Small pantries, small grocery stores. Everything is so quaint and civilized. Why, you can just
   walk down to the market.

   1. a baguette, cheese, olive oil, sausage and bottle of red. done.

      now that trip to the italian grocery requires “zee papers”!

9. For the first time in forever got a grocery store paper bag (of important supplies: cheese curds, ice cream, pistachios…) on Friday then burned the bag in the wood stove last night.

10. Well, I’m having a much-needed chuckle here this a.m. as I recall my many visits to a virtue-signalling grocery store here in Vancouver called CHOICES. At the checkout it became my habit to LOUDLY proclaim, in answer to the question Paper or Plastic?: P L A S T I C
    P L E A S E to piss off the ever so earnest carriers of planet-saving multi-use cloth dirt bags whilst looking down the line at the shocked faces.

    I’d rather be thought of as Larry David maybe but there’s a bit of Mr. Bean in me too, sadly.

11. We have a cpl of those insulated Bags that Costco sold a while back. I Found them very very handy as they have decent shoulder bags and easy to carry. Plastic lined on the inside we wash them fairly regularly.

    But for short small trips to grab a few things, I frequent our local Calgary Co-op Store. their “plastic bags” are bio-degradable at .05/per. Given we have compost bins or food waste in our Garbage complex at the Condo, these bags are perfect.! Well worth the .05/per – 100 for $5.00 is actually cheaper than buying dedicated “compostable” bags from whomever off the shelf.

    WIn Win.

12. And when that food borne plague spreads out from the checkout counter,these same Progressive Comrades will say”Oh we did not know,we meant well”.
    I refuse to pay for a plastic bag,now I toss my clothe bags onto the checkout and make jokes about bag borne bacteria multiplying on the nice warm checkout counters.
    Every plague carrying family,their children and pets contacts those bags and they all make contact with the grocery packing counter where we fill them up.
    Ignorance?
    Or according to plan?

    Interesting thing about this latest panic..if we find out later that there was a prepared vaccine and this was a deliberate release..who shall we shoot?
    Who is to be held accountable?
    The plague spreaders?
    or their enablers?
    Cause our “natural leaders” do not use any of the supply chains that are currently collapsing.
    Naturally Tinfoil hat time,but anytime I see Jean Le Cretin I see corruption.

13. The makers of the “reusable” shopping bags are simply a bunch of rent seekers. Need government regulations to force people to buy them.

14. When our city banned plastic bags, we were given a case of 1000 from one of the stores that couldn’t use them anymore, we’re still good, lots left.

15. NYS just banned them a day or two ago. Glad we moved to the Midwest last summer. We have five cats. The plastic bags are great for used cat litter. I mean, what else would you do with it? And lots of other bag uses, of course. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t re-use “single use” plastic bags.