So we go shopping recently,
and while hunting the laundry detergent aisle, thought for a second
we'd walked through Rick Moranis' enlarging machine
on Honey, I Blew Up The Kids. Everything had
shrunk overnight. We search and search for the large detergent
bottles--who wants to go to the grocery store for that every week?--and
they're all gone. Tide's bottles are tinier,
Purex compressed, Gain got smaller,
Cheer...all the way down the line.
The prices were just about
the same. Alright, we think, who's ripping us off now? I
start muttering about "this damn economy" and throwing a few of the
smaller bottles in the cart when I catch a glimpse of the labels.
Two times smaller, concentrated, does the same amount of wash loads
per package. Hmmm.
Turns out in the pursuit of
going green, laundry detergent makers have all gotten together and
produced a concentrated version of their product. The permanent
switch is sweeping the US and by the end of this year, all states should
be carrying the smaller bottles. Procter & Gamble - the 23rd
largest company in the US and the maker of Bounty, Cheer, Charmin, Gain,
and Tide - decided to make the switch in the interest of being
more environmentally-friendly. Dial Corporation (who owns
Purex) did the same.
Hey, we're cool with that. Green is
great...plus it's a lot easier to carry!!
These companies have done something good on
behalf of the environment. Thanks, and kudos! P&G has huge
success in the States, and we're of course proud of companies that come
from our home state of Ohio (P&G is based in Cincinnati). But
while they're making positive changes, we have a some animal-rights-beef
with P&G that breaks our heart, so now's a good a time as any to bring
it up!
1. Procter and Gamble, the largest consumer
products company with an annual gross exceeding $68 billion,
still conducts animal testing for development of their
products. The UK's Uncaged animal protection organization, as well
as PETA, SAEN, and
other animal rights groups, have begged P&G to abandon this cruel
practice over the years. Uncaged is asking you for a one-day
Global Boycott Procter & Gamble
Day
on May 17th, 2008. This would
send a strong message to the consumer giant that protecting animals
goes hand in hand with protecting our Earth.
2. Many
people have no idea how beagles and other dogs are overfed and hurt at
IAMS contract testing labs. Click here
to ask IAMS and P&G to stop funding animal experiments on
these pups.
3. Thanks...you earned it!
Now snatch it:
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