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Go Green, get diarrhea

February 5, 2013 @ 11:04 am

Great column today on the dangers of seemingly inconsequential laws such as plastic bag bans. My favorite part:

Los Angeles Times last May: “A reusable grocery bag left in a hotel bathroom caused an outbreak of norovirus-induced diarrhea and nausea that struck nine of 13 members of a girls’ soccer team in October, Oregon researchers reported Wednesday.” The norovirus may not have political clout, but evidently it, too, is rooting against plastic bags.

 

A new study reinforces the link between plastic bag bans and outbreaks of E.coli and salmonella.

Once again, while conservatives are frequently labeled "anti-science" for not embracing "evolution" (in quotes because the term is rarely defined in the accusation ("evolution" as in change over time? Common Ancestry? Materialist Universe?), it is the left that embraces anti-science policies that might actually kill someone.

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  • Drool wrote...
    It's Called Hygeine, Folks
    February 5, 2013 10:31 am
    One washes other food storage devices, why should shopping bags be any different?

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Unfortunately, not everyone washes --- anything !
    February 5, 2013 12:39 pm
    I was expecting something like this. And just what IS a grocery to do if a shopper brings in a totally filthy shopping bag? ..... THEN, what if the bag is not smeared with. ah 'shinola' but otherwise hasn't been washed - ever?

    The rule of unexpected consequences ..........

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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    It's a typical Boze article. Twist the situation to make it stupid to be anything other than right wing.
    February 6, 2013 2:24 pm
    This kind of drivel is Boze doing his standard thing to an issue. Twist it so that the 'leftie thing to do' is wrong - not because of the facts, but because of the way he can twist it. The problem IS NOT 'going green'. The problem is failing to excersize proper hygiene / sanitation / common sense with resuable bags for food containers. Our parents knew that if you reused your Coleman cooler, that you washed it out before you put stuff in it. Today, because people are lazy and don't think (yes, that includes conservatives like you and Boze too...), people get sick because they don't do the needful when they carry food product in thier reusable bag. But then, facts and truth matter little to the logic deprived braying of the true right wing conservative.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Sarge -
    February 6, 2013 4:27 pm
    I wouldn't care WHO brings in a filthy bag. Could be G W Bush, for all I care. ..... This shouldn't even BE a left/tight issue, EXCEPT .....

    It was originally pushed as a green/liberal/progressive thing to do 'for the environment'. ......... But, guess what? An idea can be dumb, just because it's dumb. Not everything need be political.

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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @ron
    February 6, 2013 9:39 pm
    That's exactly my point. The issue of people getting sick from re-usable containers / bags / packaging is not a left / right issue, no matter how hard Boze tries to twist the facts to rebut the (and I quote from his column) "while conservatives are frequently labeled "anti-science"" & "it is the left that embraces anti-science policies that might actually kill someone." Boze - as usual is full of his ususal 'twist facts to make conservatives look good and liberals look bad' trickery. It's actually the long term use of throw away containers that have lulled people into not thinking about the sanitation / hygene of these reusables - they never had to think about it, so don't think about it now - when they should.
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  • vanderleun wrote...
    Hey former..... if we wanted a comeback
    February 7, 2013 8:58 am
    we'd have wiped it off your chin. Please back to your 24/7/52/365 wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling obamalletio.
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  • Snout wrote...
    Ick
    February 5, 2013 1:40 pm
    And don't forget about that baby seat part of your grocery carts. Do not put anything there unless you want to get sick.
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  • Drool wrote...
    Norovirus
    February 5, 2013 2:41 pm
    Comes from people. Somebody contaminated that bag and if it was a paper or plastic one it still would have been contaminated.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    The wingnuts seem to want a "NANNY STATE"
    February 5, 2013 5:07 pm
    To require new plastic bags to be provided for by the grocery because people are not responsible enough to keep reusable shopping bags clean.The Right has no moral compass their attitudes and opinions change as often as their "Handlers" tell them to change.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    messiah, YOUR oisitions are based on whatever someone you think is 'right' posts - then you oppose.
    February 5, 2013 5:21 pm
    But this one is beyond me. WHO (here, or in Boze's post) is advocating providing new plastic bags? ... Not that plastic bags provided free by grocers is not a bad idea (hmmm - seems to have worked once) but please try to respond to what is actually posted.

    Or, are your assigned talking points getting ahead of this conversation?

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    ronp
    February 7, 2013 6:42 am
    Gee Ron read the very FIRST sentence then add 2+2.Are you up to the challenge?
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    One way to understand the theory of evolution is to see it in action.
    February 5, 2013 6:18 pm
    Stupid person puts raw chicken in a reusable bag. Stupid person continues to use the bag for other food without washing it first, gets sick, dies and thus fails to contribute their genes to the gene-pool. It's called "survival of the fittest".
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Srupid person keeps putting salmonella bag on grocery counter.
    February 6, 2013 5:28 am
    And kills a dozen other shoppers and checkers before they get sick and die themselves.

    Evolution thru extinction.

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  • SeattleD wrote...
    If I see Republitards in line behind me
    February 6, 2013 5:45 am
    I intentionally spill a little extra chicken juice on the conveyor belt.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    D, that's the first post ot yours in a long time....
    February 6, 2013 6:55 am
    that I DO believe.
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  • Cash wrote...
    Wow
    February 6, 2013 10:47 am
    That is responsible and something I would expect from an adult. All over I difference of opinion. You seattled are a true loser.
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  • Snout wrote...
    That's mighty progressive of you.
    February 6, 2013 2:58 pm
    Nothing like launching a mini biological warfare attack on those you disagree with politically.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    So let me get this straight:
    February 7, 2013 8:08 am
    It's more environmentally sound and time-smart to have to sanitize a reusable bag...with what, a disposable wipe, detergent, etc....than it is to use a thin, reusable, recyclable, degradable plastic bag?
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