Greed In the Name Of GreenCongregation of the Church of the Holy Organic, let us buy. Let us purge our closets of those sinful synthetics, purify ourselves in
the flame of the soy candle at the altar of the immaculate Earth Weave rug,
and let us buy, buy, buy until we are whipped into a beatific froth of
free-range fulfillment. There was a time, and it was pre-Al Gore, when buying organic meant eggs and tomatoes, Whole Foods and farmer's markets. But in the past two years, the word has seeped out of the supermarket and into the home store, into the vacation industry, into the Wal-Mart. Almost three-quarters of the U.S. population buys organic products at least occasionally; between 2005 and 2006 the sale of organic non-food items increased 26 percent, from $744 million to $938 million, according to the Organic Trade Association. Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008... 2007. Copyright Environmental News Network To subscribe or visit go to: http://www.enn.com |