Yup. The EPA is telling your kids at school that juice boxes are weapons against the Earth. That’s right. Your kids at lunchtime are drinking strawberry flavored apocalypse. And you don’t even care. That’s why they’re bypassing you and going straight to your children.
Mark Hemingway writes:
Of all the questionable lessons our schools are imparting to young kids, the idea that Legos are destroying the planet might just be the most absurd.
“Riding in the car one day with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., Rafael de la Torre Batker, 9, was worried about whether it would be bad for the planet if he got a new set of Legos,” reported The New York Times in May. Where once we dispensed practical advice to children about children about consumerism, “waste not, want not” is being supplanted by the lesson that want a new toy makes children part of an apocalyptic death cult.
This video explains everything:
October 20, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Hope all those teachers enjoy dripping, leaking, stinking sticky thermos bottles, etc.
October 20, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Did that guy say consumerism is a virtue? Wow, that is Christian morality turned on its head!
October 20, 2010 at 8:43 pm
A little digging turned up that this video was put together by Lee Doren, a hack who works for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a LIBERTARIAN think tank.
Hasn't it been shown time and again that libertarian market values are at odds with the Catholic Culture of Life?
Did you notice that this guy keeps talking about Annie Leonard's "lies" without pointing up a single one?
Do you really think it's a good idea to make billions of juice boxes only to use them once and then stuff them into landfills?
October 20, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Ah, heck, folks, I taught Chaucer to the little boogers today, not consumerism. Don't project; think.
— Mack
October 20, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Do you really think it's a good idea to make billions of juice boxes only to use them once and then stuff them into landfills?
Why sure. Keeps juice box makers employed, along with landfill employees, as well as the juicers, the distributors, the grocers, the check-out clerks…
October 21, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I don't by juice boxes anyway. One bottle of juice goes a lot further than juice boxes for less. But then again, I have the dreaded "Large Family" I am not a "consumer", and quite frankly both sides of this story frighten me equally. On the one hand, there are the leftists screaming "save the environment" and on the other are the rightists screaming "save capitalism". It's sickening. Personally, I don't think any Catholic should endorse either extreme. We should be screaming "use the brain God gave you."
October 21, 2010 at 9:02 pm
It floors me when people accuse homeschoolers of indoctrinating their kids, and then crap like this gets shoved down the throats of all the other kids in my neighborhood. Not that I would tout capitalism as a virtue as this video does. But I'm not against juice boxes as Annie Leonard is (whoever she might be).
October 22, 2010 at 6:25 pm
There won't be that many juiceboxes in landfills, not if we burn them in incinerators! (which, by the way, is one we get rid of our garbage, nowadays…)
October 23, 2010 at 7:43 pm
"Anti-consumerism values"
Sounds good to me.
I agree that kids shouldn't be targeted like this, but I also think that juice boxes are shamefully wasteful. It's more reasonable to buy juice by the gallon and put it in thermos in your kids' lunch boxes. Better yet, make your own juice and shed the lunch boxes by homeschooling your kids.
Ditto to what Anonymous @ 10:54 said.