Comments on: Wo/Man cannot live on Nutella alone http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/07/06/woman-cannot-live-on-nutella-alone/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:33:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Heather http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/07/06/woman-cannot-live-on-nutella-alone/#comment-13268 Heather Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:59:11 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1633#comment-13268 Chaplain Please, don't feel guilty about what you eat. It's not as if we have much control over it, which is partly what I was thinking about. (The uselessness of individual action - at the same time, knowing that we contribute to the world's problems by not actng.) Online papers are the paper-saving solution, I totally agree. I buy the print Guardian, on the same woolly half-thought out principles that make me try to use the local shops rather than the supermarket. That is, I think it will stop being there at all if it loses too many real customers. Given that the British press must be the worst in the world, I feel morally obliged not to help kill off the couple of real papers ( the Guardian and the Independent.) Chaplain
Please, don’t feel guilty about what you eat. It’s not as if we have much control over it, which is partly what I was thinking about. (The uselessness of individual action - at the same time, knowing that we contribute to the world’s problems by not actng.)

Online papers are the paper-saving solution, I totally agree.

I buy the print Guardian, on the same woolly half-thought out principles that make me try to use the local shops rather than the supermarket. That is, I think it will stop being there at all if it loses too many real customers. Given that the British press must be the worst in the world, I feel morally obliged not to help kill off the couple of real papers ( the Guardian and the Independent.)

]]> By: the chaplain http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/07/06/woman-cannot-live-on-nutella-alone/#comment-13259 the chaplain Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:50:38 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1633#comment-13259 Blimey! You've gone and made me feel horribly guilty about my eating habits! My recycling habits aren't much better than yours, I'm afraid, except for the fact that I only read online versions of newspapers. I thought that solved one recycling problem quite nicely. Blimey! You’ve gone and made me feel horribly guilty about my eating habits! My recycling habits aren’t much better than yours, I’m afraid, except for the fact that I only read online versions of newspapers. I thought that solved one recycling problem quite nicely.

]]> By: TW http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/07/06/woman-cannot-live-on-nutella-alone/#comment-13254 TW Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:44:37 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1633#comment-13254 To be fair, lots of places still have milkmen but the reality is the customer put them out of business. We were the ones who had to choose between using, and maintaining, a community asset or saving 5p a pint and buying it at the supermarket. The only reason local businesses die when Tescos / Sainsburys / Asda (etc) role into to town is because local people are so ruthlessly tight fisted. To be fair, lots of places still have milkmen but the reality is the customer put them out of business.

We were the ones who had to choose between using, and maintaining, a community asset or saving 5p a pint and buying it at the supermarket.

The only reason local businesses die when Tescos / Sainsburys / Asda (etc) role into to town is because local people are so ruthlessly tight fisted.

]]> By: Heather http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/07/06/woman-cannot-live-on-nutella-alone/#comment-13253 Heather Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:29:11 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1633#comment-13253 Andrew Pity they don't use paper bags. That would be really entertaining. I've just remembered there used to be milkmen, who brought milk to the door and took away the empty bottles, until the supermarkets mostly put them out of business... Andrew

Pity they don’t use paper bags. That would be really entertaining.

I’ve just remembered there used to be milkmen, who brought milk to the door and took away the empty bottles, until the supermarkets mostly put them out of business…

]]> By: Andrew http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/07/06/woman-cannot-live-on-nutella-alone/#comment-13252 Andrew Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:45:19 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1633#comment-13252 Did you see recently a couple of supermarkets decided to start selling milk in bags? You get a little bag of milk, take it home very carefully to stop it splitting and ruining everything you bought or are wearing, and then you put it in a special clever bottle that you have to buy separately. Saves packaging, and saves you money... Except that it costs at least as much to get the bags as it does to get normal bottled milk. And you have to buy the little bottle. I mean, sure, so you also get a fuzzy warm feeling of helping, but surely they should pass on the savings? Making more profit from cheaper, more eco-friendly products is mildly obscene. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2098737/Milk-in-bags-hits-Sainsbury%27s-shelves.html Did you see recently a couple of supermarkets decided to start selling milk in bags? You get a little bag of milk, take it home very carefully to stop it splitting and ruining everything you bought or are wearing, and then you put it in a special clever bottle that you have to buy separately. Saves packaging, and saves you money…

Except that it costs at least as much to get the bags as it does to get normal bottled milk. And you have to buy the little bottle. I mean, sure, so you also get a fuzzy warm feeling of helping, but surely they should pass on the savings? Making more profit from cheaper, more eco-friendly products is mildly obscene.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2098737/Milk-in-bags-hits-Sainsbury%27s-shelves.html

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