LAUGHING OUT LOUD AT PETA

One of the posts I continue to get traffic on every day (here) is about PETA and why so people dislike the organization. I understand the emotional component of wanting to spare unnecessary pain to animals I don’t understand mean and childish pranks that generate media attention and little else.

These two videos are a case in point! Let’s just call this, now you see the monkey Peta got upset about and now you don’t! Continue reading LAUGHING OUT LOUD AT PETA

CALIFORNIA BANS THE PLASTIC BAG

It’s time for the US to get serious about banning or (at the very least) addressing the environmental damage caused by the ubiquitous single use plastic.

It is ironic that for a country that has led the world in so many environmental issues that we have such a shameful record of ignoring this hazard … all in the name of convenience, of course!

How’s this for a statistic?Plastic constitutes a whopping 90 percent of all trash floating in the oceans, and that represents as much as 80 percent of all plastic waste on earth! Continue reading CALIFORNIA BANS THE PLASTIC BAG