What the blazes is going on here?
CSPI is (yawn) suing KFC and considering suing Starbucks for their high fat and bad fat for you quotient. Almost isn't even worth commenting on, although there's always good with the lame--7-Up deserves whatever they get for running with that stupid "all-natural" ad campaign. They're not really winning on the ad front these days, anyway. Food Police-1; Litigators-2.
But then, there's more food craziness. Whole foods wants to stop selling live lobsters on the grounds that, get this, they can't guarantee the lobster's treatment and happiness between capture and sale. Like my dropping a lobster in boiling water or pithing it is SOOOOO much better. I noticed they're still selling all-natural pest-control, but apparently since no bug will be harmed in transit, that's ok. They also still sell duck meat, however, even though Trader Joe's stopped selling duck years ago for the very same reason. Can't dis Whole Foods too much, though, since it's the only place I can get decent veal anymore, although the irony of that hasn't escaped me either.
And then, today, they dared go after my beloved. Fluffer-nutter sandwiches. A (democratic no-less) state senator here in MA wants to ban the sugary goodness from schools. I mean, jeez, it's bad enough that peanut butter ain't allowed in schools anymore, ya gotta take away the great white goop too?
Between the social consiousness and the litigation, what's left to enjoy? Yes, trans-fats are bad for you. Sure, a mocha-choco-buttercreme-crisco-latte is a calorie bomb. Lobsters...well, ok. But they're BUGS.
Do we really need other people taking up bandwidth, court time, news wires, etc etc. with all this junk? Do you need to be told that KFC is *gasp* not health food? Well, despte their misguided ads from a few years ago--maybe CSPI thinks we're all idiots, or KFC believes there's no such thing as bad publicity.
If you're against cruelty to lobsters, then don't buy them. Hmm, leads to the question of what they're gonna do with said lobsters. Set them free? Didn't I see that in Annie Hall?
Just keep your laws off the fluff. Don't make me put on my high heels and come down to the state house.
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-- Posted by: Oyjeysbo at July 15, 2009 11:32 AM