Let me start off by explaining. I am not the typical bleeding heart type. I have no problem with eating meat, fur coats, and am strongly suspect the whole global warming thing is a combination of fatalism, unfounded hysteria, climatologists trying to justify their profession, and a general outgrowth of the liberal notion that humans are evil, especially if they use technology or work for a big corporation.
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However, I saw a commercial on TV tonight that if I were not disturbed by it, I don’t think I could call myself a moral being. That product is Kitty Litter, specifically this completely narcissistic kitty litter.
Some of my best friends are cats!
No, I have nothing against cats (even the non LOL variety). I have several of them and generally consider myself a “cat person”, in fact. I have nothing against cat litter in general. I go through tons of the stuff at my house, although like most cat owners it irks me to no end when I let the cat in the house, it runs right to the litter box to drop a load, then runs back to the door expecting to be let out again.
It isn’t even the blatant green-washing going on to promote this stuff. If you are a hyper-sensitive enviro-nut who hasn’t been in a science class since grade 10 and don’t realize that nature won’t even flinch at the notion of scented clay, go ahead and pay a premium for your conceit. See if I care.
The problem is the WAY they are making it earth friendly. Observe exhibit A.
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Yes, they are making it out of “whole-kernel-corn.” Let me diagram this for you, the way I’d might try to explain it to one of the thousands of children in the world who will die of starvation today.
In America we trap animals indoors against their will.
This prevents them from pooping in their natural habitat.
So we fill boxes with clay for them to poop in so it is sanitary.
We don’t like the smell of the boxes so we normally perfume it.
But we feel bad about this because scientists say CO2 makes the earth hotter.
And in 100 years it might get hot enough to melt icebergs and change the weather.
For example, it might cause it to rain more often in your drought plagued country.
Although scented clay doesn’t have contain CO2, it isn’t good for nature.
Even though it came out of the ground (aka “Nature”) .
So we started filling the boxes with food.
Yes, the same kind of food that might have kept you alive until tomorrow.
And yes, food that contains Carbon, that will become CO2 when it “biodegrades”.
Well, it only does that if we first put it in a bowl of clean water in your house,
You don’t have clean water piped into your house? I guess it’s an American thing.
Anyway …
So no, we can’t send you any food, because then what would our animals poop on?
"Can I haz some kiddy lidder? Nom Nom Nom!"
Something is seriously wrong with humanity.
