This is one of those situations where I just want to scream, “It shouldn’t be this difficult folks!”
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has decided to keep their contract with Pepsi, thus keeping their soda machines in school hallways until the school board has ‘reviewed healthier options’. Of course the negative side of me immediately goes to the thought that instead of having corn syrup and sugar laden drinks they’ll go for aspartame.
I really don’t understand what has to be “reviewed”, instead of pop we want water and fruit juices, no?
So isnt’t it extremely convenient then that Pepsi sells these products as well! They own Tropicana and Aquafina, in addition to licensing Dole. Seems like this shouldn’t be a big issue, in fact it can go kind of like this.
“Hey Pepsi, how’s it going? I’m doing fine. Look, I have something to discuss… see the parents are really getting on my ass about all that sugar and high-fructose corn syrup in your beverages… I know, I know we do have a great relationship. That’s why instead of cutting you out why don’t you just send up your fine bottled water beverage and Tropicana juices? What’s that? You even have a line of juice that doesn’t need refrigeration providing us with the shipping convenience of soda? That’s fantastic, I think we have a deal here.”
Ok so I’m being a little facetious but the ‘we need to talk it out’ response is pure bureaucratic bullshit. I’m sure Pepsi would not mind switching products in order to keep your business, and if they are going to be asses you go talk to Coke, who owns Dasani, Minute Maid, Fruitopia and Fuze; they’ll be more than happy to take business away from Pepsi.
Students and their parents deserve better than this.
Posted in consumerism, food, health.
Tagged with Aquafina, Coca-Cola, Dasani, Fruitopia, Fuze, Minute Maid, Pepsi, schools, Toronto District School Board, Tropican.
By hypatia
– June 28, 2009
So, in an interview with Carrie Prejean aka Miss USA Runner-Up, she claims that the question on same-sex marriage was a temptation from Satan aka the Devil aka Lucy.
Now I’ve heard Perez Hilton called many things but Satan is a new one. Not that she is calling him Satan or anything, Satan was just responsible for the question. Thoroughly “lol-worthy”.
Seriously, can she think of any other way to prostrate herself to the religious right fringe? And I have to ask why. Is it really worth it to bow down to these people so readily when they are happy to describe you as the “adulterous woman“? The sheer disdain in those type of comments is amazing, not only to Ms. Prejean herself but to women in general. It cat calls to similar thinkers “Hey, check out the whore! But since we’re such amazing people we’ll forgive her… well as long as she keeps complaining about that evil gay agenda.”
Posted in controversy, public perception.
Tagged with gay rights, Miss USA, Satan.
By hypatia
– May 11, 2009
Edit: What this post is NOT about: Christianity, religion itself, or atheism. It is certainly not about “bashing” Christianity. If you read this post and come to that conclusion you are both A) not really reading the post and B) looking for some kind of fight.
Seriously.
I adore PostSecret, you can get and amazing snapshot of both thoughtful insights of compassion and this…
someone who is so self obsessed they can’t bother to take anytime to actually understand what is going on in the world.
I’m just trying to understand how this works for her (presumably, but at about 99.99%), is the world-wide economy crisis perpetuated by the “non-believers”? Is there no real recession/depression going on in the world, just those religion renouncers getting fired “by God”. Or is it that she is just so self-centered it boils down to this idea that her private life is just soooo important that God is punishing the entire world because her husband renounced “his religion”.
Unfortunately any of these possible solutions can only be met with: Really? Really! Are you that self-centered? Really? Your grasp on reality is slipping.
The language is interesting too. Presumably if the man had stated “I’m going to be an athiest now,” the language would have been a little more serious, something like renouncing God himself or even denouncing him. “Renounced his religion”, sounds more like “You know, Catholocism just isn’t working for me.” Somehow I would doubt that God would get that vengeful for just not showing up to church on Sunday mornings.
I predict the only connection this poor man is going to make is that his wife can’t be bothered to respect his decisions and would rather place crap on “God” rather than contemplating human responsibility.
Posted in public perception.
Tagged with Post Secret, religion.
By hypatia
– April 20, 2009
You know that old joke; that if someone is particularly homophobic it must be because they are trying to hide that they are, in fact, themselves gay. I wonder if the same sentiment can be applied to National Post columnist Barbara Kay, because the hatred she displays for women must be a cover for something.
Take for example her February 23rd column: “Teach Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale as the story it is, a nasty trifecta of feminist bigotry”
I think the worst part of this article is that is actually makes want to defend the writing of Margaret Atwood. I do not like the writing of Margaret Atwood.
The start off point for the article was the fact that one parent did not want their child reading “The Handmaid’s Tale” for school because the story amounted to “fictional drivel”. Which is funny because that’s how I would sum up the rest of Kay’s article. Or perhaps more accurately, “The Drivel of One Who Doesn’t Understand Fiction”.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” is a dystopian novel presenting a world in which women are forced back into a world of oppression where they a kept as slaves or concubines in which to produce children.
The first attack Kay makes on the novel is it is so horribly wrong because Atwood uses an example of patriarchal Christians as the rulers and controllers of this science or speculative fiction novel. Which of course just wouldn’t happen because Christians would never do anything like trying to control people.
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Posted in controversy, history.
Tagged with abortion, Barbara Kay, bigotry, Conservative, Conservative Christians, dystopian, feminism, Lebensborn, literary, Margaret Atwood, Nazi, novel, sexism.
By hypatia
– March 11, 2009
The Vegan Mafia is really starting to bum me out. They are starting to get as bad as Creationists in their proseltizing ways and great disregard for any type of research that might conflict with their love for being able to call themselves “perfect”.
And the stupid! Gah!
I’ll put it this way. I should never be able to read your article and refute half of what you say off the top of my head just by using some common sense.
The 101 Reasons to Go Vegetarian or as I like to call it: A Couple Reasons to Go Veg With Other Things Pulled Out My Ass.
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Posted in environment, food, health.
Tagged with agriculture, environment, farming, food, health, husbandry, vegans, vegetarians.
By hypatia
– March 4, 2009
