Can no simple pleasure remain unspoiled by the greedy, hateful actions of men?Fast-forward a couple of days, and I'm riding along in my hybrid car, listening to public radio's Weekend America, on my way to pick-up sandwiches from a local eatery (spending dollars close to home = more money for my local economy), when I hear this story about a dude who has given up his cell phone for politico-social reasons. Apparently, a certain metal used in cell phone production comes from the Congo in an area inhabited by endangered gorillas.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/03/1193619205911.html
This was a big news story in the U.S. in Summer 2001, but as you can imagine, other matters soon commanded our national attention. Here are some other links on the issue:
http://vision.ucsd.edu/%7Ekbranson/stopchocolateslavery/atasteofslavery.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1625697,00.html
Fasting from chocolate is going to be way more difficult than the 9 months that I had to go without dairy in order to keep my nursing baby's tummy healthy. If anyone knows about a local source of cruelty free chocolate, please lemme know!
Crap! No eating chocolate and no using cell phones, or else I'm a terrible person who contributes to the abuse and murder of children and gorillas from Africa. What's a foodie, gadget-loving lefty to do?
3 comments:
Did you know you have a nemesis at liberalguilt.blogspot.com?
If you don't eat chocolate, less $$ goes to Africa and the cocoa workers starve. Then there are the machetes. Basically, Africa is a tough place to live - you can:
- be a slave
- starve
- get hacked with a machete
- get roasted while trying to scavenge fuel from an open pipeline
- pay a gagillion in local currency for a carrot
- get shot by drunken ak47 wielding 9 yr olds.
- get gangraped
If you are lucky you can scam money from some idiot American on the internet. In fact - I encourage it. No one that dumb should have any money.
Did you know you have a nemesis at liberalguilt.blogspot.com
Not anymore. It looks like he died, or at least stopped having any new ideas after October 2004. His last post was devoted to dogging on Charlize Theron for suggesting that her character in that Oscar-winning serial killer biopic was complex.
Hope my little blog can aim a little higher on the relevance scale....
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