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The bottle looks like it has been cracked.

Reminds me of that scene in Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum is whining about people not properly disposing of their recyclables while 15 mile wide city destroyers were howevering over NYC waiting to blast it to smithereens.

Waste not want not.
If you don't like it don't buy it.

Like those stupid and irritating ads for those water filters PUR and BRITTA i mean those ads the one with the stupid bottle of talking water ITS STUPID AND IRRITATING and that BRITTA ad is even more stupid and irrittaing the ones who made them must be a stupid irritating moonbat jerk

Yes, Spurwing, those commercials are irritatingly sanctimonious. That said, I can go one further from the marketing gimmickiteers featured in the article. I do have a Brita, and I take home my used water bottles from work and fill them up with Brita'd water. I buy no bottled water, I throw few bottles away. Taking Harris' advice.

See, recycling takes up tremendous amounts of energy and is so inefficient. I'm no environut, I'm more of an economist.

I wouldn't buy something like that, mainly because I already have a water jug that I reuse and they usually charge more for something with a message like that.

For instance, organic beef costs less to produce yet its final price is higher than traditionally raised beef.

For instance, organic beef costs less to produce yet its final price is higher than traditionally raised beef.

If this is the case, why isn't all beef "organic".

BTW all cows are organic.

Organic beef costs less to produce but costs more? The only people who can afford to pay more for a message are white tower limosine liberals. In other words organic food producers are ripping people off. Nice.

The concept here is not a bad one, we should not waste, regardless of the BS about global warming, i mean climate change...

No reason not to throw your trash out the window, and if it can be used again, then great.

But the sanctimonious crap has always irritated me. And charging extra is profiteering (Hmm, Al Gore's "he preyed on our fears" comes to mind"...
Like the hybrid car I saw on the road the other day that said "eat my voltage". Ass Hat.

I'm with Stephana on the beef thing; if organic beef costs less to produce but sells for a higher price, every cattle rancher in the western hemisphere would be doing it. Maybe there's some super-secret "organic cattlemen's union" that shuts out all those other ranchers? To say that it's cheaper to make just smacks of PETA-style propaganda (PETAganda?)

As far as these silly bottles go... somebody, somewhere, came up with one helluva way to fleece even more cash from self-loathing liberals. Way to go, Mr./Ms. Entrepreneur! Capitalism at work.

Trace,

I agree with the 'Why not recycle?' mentality. It makes absolutely no more or less work for me if I toss my glass bottle or soda can in the trash or into a recycle bin.

The only reason we don't recycle more nowadays is because we live in a time of plenty and can afford to be wasteful. You can bet they didn't throw away bottles or cans in the 1930s.

Note also the typical green misanthropy. (http://www.core77.com/competitions/GreenerGadgets/projects/4619/)

"In countries without potable water available readily from the taps, people resort to convenient alternatives like bottled water. Water consumption from PET bottles creates a worldwide environmental problem of ineffective plastic disposal and accumulation."

The real problem (apparently) is not that people are starving and thirsty but that the used water bottles create an "environmental problem".

I guess it would just be too uncouth for these people to drink tap water like the rest of us. You can't recycle tap water though, so your eco-conscious might suffer...

It bothers me that I breathe the same air as these people.

Blame the guilt-ridden moonbats who create the market for such useless crap. Blame that demographic for the sanctimonious, irritating advertising too. But as far as Brita and Pur filters are concerned, Spurwing, don't throw the baby out with the bath (so to speak :-))

Our tap water smells like bleach and tastes terrible - I don't even cook or make coffee with unfiltered water. But why pay somebody else to bottle it when you can install a faucet filter and reuse bottles (ones without dying polar bears or whatever those things are supposed to be)?

On another note: Yuppie propaganda notwithstanding, organic meat really does taste better - and is undoubtedly a more healthful alternative - than that raised and processed by factory farms. It IS an expensive enterprise however; primarily because fewer cattle can be produced using organic methods. Throw in all the bureaucratic intervention and the price to the consumer skyrockets. Unfortunately, the rancher isn't the one who profits... http://organic-meat.com/ (a long-time web site client of mine who finally had to give up)

hiram,

It costs less per head, but without the growth hormones and high-protein feeds you have less total weight per head.

Cattle fed only grass and grass hay are not going to gain weight as quickly as fed-out cattle. Therefore the rancher must either hold them longer or sell/butcher them at a lower weight.

I worked on a cattle operation that has undergone the transformation to 'organic'. It was the first in Georgia to do so, but I bet many will follow suit. You can google 'first organic beef georgia' if you like.

I know, I know, this is a 'new' trend so it's stupid.

What is organic beef? I suppose it implies that the critter never ate any kind of forage or feed that had been treated with chemicals, that it never received any antibiotics, and it never was given any hormones. That would be some kind of range animal that had a backbone showing and hipbones sticking out and looked a little like the horse the Cheyenne Indian is riding coming back from war in the painting. Probably it would taste about like that horse. This is usually considered English beef--boil the hell out of it with lots of all spice and eat while drunk or starving. Also good to feed to poor people and for food shelves.

Animals like this are cheaper to raise since you don't do anything. If they are diseased, you don't spend money on them--you don't even know it. You fence them into some scrap semi desert land and once a year go get a few of them and truck them away. You don't spend 10 minutes on them otherwise. Some die and are eaten by coyotes and skunks where they fall. They are the most misbegotten, crossbread, inbred miserable critters you can imagine. And yes, people will pay more to eat them. Because they are organic. Remember, most road kill is organic!

SnowSnake,

Thank you for your misguided, ignorant, and completely asinine description of something you have absolutely no knowledge about.

Harris;

So, in other words, organic beef actually doesn't cost less to produce, but costs more. "Per Head" means nothing when beef is sold by ranchers at "pound on the hoof" rates.

Harris,

Actually, I do have knowledge about it. You worked on a little farm in Georgia raising some pets and think you are an expert. I am talking about thousands of range animals all over a huge portion of the country. That is an area much bigger than the whole state of Georgia. You are very quick to resort to insults. Thus, I am going to say the most vile thing I can say about somebody--you are reacting like a liberal.

"You can bet they didn't throw away bottles or cans in the 1930s."

They threw the cans away and returned the coke bottles for the two cent deposit.

SnowSnake is right; what HARRIS is suggesting is OLD STUFF, not "new and improved". My family were long-time farmers and cattlemen. We fattened our beef on grass, hay, Purina feed and occasional corn cobs. We made sure they were vacinated and inspected for the many diseases they can pick up in the field. I will buy from the farmer who puts a lot of time and work in his/her animals every time.

PS:
Every time you drink bottled water, you are actually drinking a MELTED GLACIER! Sleep well, moonbats.

Harris,

To continue the discussion:

Do you disagree that in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, Western Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, Western North Dakota, Nevada, Colorado,and South West Montana there are range cattle?

Do you disagree that some of these cattle have never been exposed to chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, or any pesticides?

Do you agree that an animal never exposed to any kind of chemical or artificial agent except grass and water could be called organic?

Do you claim that no animal is ever shipped directly from any range in any of the states I mentioned?

Do you claim that such meat from such range cattle would be the best prime meat that most people are used to eating? Are you saying it is good meat and it would taste good even if the animals are of varying sex, age, and breed without castration of bulls?

Do you deny that lower quality range cattle meat does and will find its way to food shelves?

Do you claim that range animals on hundreds of square miles of semi desert range are so carefully watched and tended that none die, have disease, or are eaten by coyotes?

Exactly what stops anybody from selling meat from cattle never exposed to any chemicals or hormones or antibiotics and calling the meat organic?

WTF are we arguing about?

Sorry, guys. I am off my meds today.

The pharmacy was supposed to get my lithium carbonate to me but I think that they evaporated because I took off my tinfoil hat for a few seconds to poke my pea brain back inside.

God, IT HURTS!!

GAHHHH!

BURN CORPSES FOR HEAT!

PISS ON YOUR APPLIANCES!

EAT ORGANIC MEAT OR YOU'RE WORSE THAN HITLER!

YOU'RE JUST MONKEYS IF YOU DON'T!

BYAAAHH!

Sorry, meds...

You may have just caused a new hazard warning. I can imagine a law that all appliances have a warning label to unplug them before urinating on them.

It turns out that Hitler was not a vegetarian--his chef named several meats that he ate.

Monkeys (more specifically apes) also will eat meat in the wild. Since it is wild meat, it is probably organic meat.

Have fun wallowing in your ignorance everyone!

Have fun wallowing in your sanctimonious bullshit, know that you're so much holier than us, Harris!

Have fun wallowing in your green moonbat stupididy stupid green moonbats when your bicycle gets stuck in a snow storm in the rocky mountians and your shivering and regreting going so green and foolish

Why even buy bottled water, then? The tap is right there.

This is about as effective a message as cancer warnings on cigarettes.