Am I The Only One That Wants More Plastic Packaging for My Fruit and Veges?

OzBozo on 15/12/2019 - 20:47
Last edited 15/12/2019 - 21:13

Seriously , I would like to buy a tomato, some grapes or a apple or whatever that hasn't had the hands of disgusting people who have to pick up every single apple on the pile before they make their choice or sneeze all over it. I have even seen Woolworths staff at the end of the day throw the dirty floor mats directly on top of the fruit and veg for the night so they can mop the floors.
And as for the people who think they are green who probably burnt the equivalent of 500 plastic bags worth of oil driving to the supermarket in their SUV, while smugly thinking they are saving the planet for buying a carrot with no packaging . I hope that salmonella its rolling around in from the raw chicken juice on the check out line conveyor belt makes you sick. because you make me sick.

lets face It. All the oil in the world is eventually going one of two ways.
It is either going to be turned in to plastic and buried back in the ground where it came from. Or its going to be burned into the atmosphere as petrol, which includes those smugs in their SUV'S thinking they are saving the planet eating their plastic free salmonella carrot.

You can all go to hell.
I want my carrot wrapped up in plastic.

Food & Grocery

Comments

  • khued on 16/12/2019 - 21:57

    cool story bru

  • Blitz001 on 16/12/2019 - 22:31
    -1

    Check out this snowflake.

  • This Guy on 17/12/2019 - 00:04

    I prefer satin boxes too!

    Edit: I just read your post. You realise fruit pickers are normally filthy backpackers/migrants/hippies/[your lest favorite social descriptor]???

  • OzBozo on 17/12/2019 - 00:36
    -1

    yes i'm being a stupid germophobe. but the moral of the story is I cant stand environmental hypocrites.
    you should never be shopping at Woolworths in the first place . every single item in every store in the country came there on a planet killing truck, including all of you on the front seat of a land cruiser.
    yet you all seem to think you can trot in here on your moral high horse and berate me for what you believe is killing the planet.
    you have all been green washed by governments and corporations.
    Want to help the planet? 1: cut up your passport, never fly again. 2: cut up your drivers license and crush your car into a cube.3 stop eating red meat. 4 stop breeding.
    I Myself ride a bicycle everywhere, am not a breeder and rarely fly.
    so already 100 times more environmentally friendly than 99% of all of you.
    yet oh no its that plastic bag ( equivalent in fossil fuel of 10 metres driving your car)

    you just see the visible problems, all of you have tunnel vision and cant see 99% of the problems is what you cant see . you want to change the world but are all to selfish to change your way of life to make a real difference.

    If you honestly think you can prance around the supermarket with your woven straw basket looking down at me with my plastic bag thinking you are some sort Superior being. then god help us all.

    • Some Human on 17/12/2019 - 01:10
      +1

      I cant stand environmental hypocrites.

      Yeah, they piss me off, too. I watch a lot of Tiny House videos and it sheets me when they say they went tiny to reduce their footprint, but have or are planning to have 3+ kids. There's 3+ extra footprints right there on top of your "smaller footprint". If they really cared about the planet, they wouldn't have children at all. It more than cancels out going tiny to "save the earth".

    • Thaal Sinestro on 17/12/2019 - 02:30
      +1

      "And as for the people who think they are green who probably burnt the equivalent of 500 plastic bags worth of oil driving to the supermarket in their SUV, while smugly thinking they are saving the planet for buying a carrot with no packaging."

      You're absolutely correct, 95% of people who claim to be green are affluent middle class hypocritics, the sort of people who jet around the world regularly, drive planet killers, have climate controlled houses, purchase a new iPhone every year even though their old fine works 1000%, and so on.

      You mention breeding; there are far too many people in the world, all desiring a first world living standard, yet I NEVER hear environmentalists mention population control. Their low IQ one track minds reduced everything to "Carbon", though is reality there is an enormous difference between pure carbon and 'Carbonated Oxygen'.

      If SUV driving ecozealots are serious about lowering their carbon emissions, try breath cessation. There is 125 times as much CO2 in the air we exhale, compared to the air we inhale. 7% of humaity's CO2 emissions are simply the result of respiration. I don't believe in man made global warming/climate change (climate has always been in flux), so I'm free to breath as much as I want (however, species loss and deforestation does bother me; they aren't caused by combustion engines but by human overpopulation).

    • madseason on 17/12/2019 - 10:28

      You never mentioned any of the general environmental options in your original post. You ranted about the plastic issue so everyone smashed you with it. If you feel like you are doing well with what you are doing then that is really great.

      If other people are swanning about thinking they are doing something even with the smallest of changes, you should encourage it and not disparage it.
      Lead by example and people will follow.
      Going on a huge rant is not an example of this because then you will see exactly what happened here.

      TLDR: Don't bait people with a plastic carrot argument if you want to discuss greener methods of living. It's not a competition.

    • Teasea on 17/12/2019 - 11:22
      +1

      I unfortunately leaned to negging because your hate is overwhelming (a bit of whinging is acceptable, but you seem to have a vendetta against the entire internet/world, and ultimately the one most harmed by this negativity will be you OP).

      Can you be honest and share with us the number of people who sat on their high-horse and shamed you while you wrapped your single carrot at the local grocer? Or did you accumulate defensiveness from reading too many "environmental hypocrites" internet posts?

      While I applaud your virtue of riding a bicycle and reducing your carbon footprint, I encourage you to do the same and acknowledge other people's efforts in striving to reduce theirs. We can't be 100% self-sufficient nor completely mitigate any damage to the planet in this day and age, but many are making small changes to their lifestyle because we're not all a#$holes.

      If you hate hypocrites, then the first person you should rebuke is yourself, because we all have hypocrisy within us. Focus more on improving yourself, and you will find a lot less time to hate others.

    • ssjwill on 17/12/2019 - 13:00
      +1

      am not a breeder
      god help us all

      god already has

      might've eaten one too many carrots with the plastic still on or the plastic bag around your head is getting a bit tight

    • AS2035 on 20/12/2019 - 16:55

      Even if it's packaged it has been sprayed. You don't know how many people handled it prior to it being packaged

      Farmers markets.. organic so not been sprayed and only 1 or 2 people have handled it.. if you are picking something from the tree then you may be don't wash it.. otherwise wash everything.

  • Ughhh on 17/12/2019 - 02:53
    +3

    One thing that saddens me, are animals being affected by our rubbish ie. Plastic caught in fish gills, drowned animals.

  • ozbargainer666 on 17/12/2019 - 06:28

    i hope your plastic - packaged carrots are picked and wrapped by backpackers that didn't wash their hands after going to the bathroom

    • TEER3X on 17/12/2019 - 21:47

      you think there are bathrooms out in the fields… bahahahaha

  • Wheatgrass on 17/12/2019 - 06:57

    I live in a house full of germophobes and I don't want more plastic on produce, I just wash the fruit.

  • Croshema on 17/12/2019 - 08:20
    +1

    There are concessions in life to be made regarding helping our environmental impact.

    Reducing plastic packaging seems like an easy one.

  • Captain M on 17/12/2019 - 08:30

    Dont you wash your fruit and veg before you eat them?

  • NaRaSaRang on 17/12/2019 - 09:14
    +2

    Surely this is some sort of a troll post where OP lacks a bit of attention in his/her life!

    • Cletus vandamme on 17/12/2019 - 10:32
      +2

      You would hope so but even if it is, someone out there would think this.

  • Cletus vandamme on 17/12/2019 - 10:32

    Don't bother about the fruit I heard plastic is highly nutritious.

  • crashloaded on 17/12/2019 - 10:36

    I hope you wrap your junk in plastic so you don't procreate.

  • sandman87 on 17/12/2019 - 11:13

    You could just wash it

  • brad1-8tsi on 17/12/2019 - 11:44
    +1

    whether wrapped in plastic or not you should be washing your produce in a water/vinegar mixture to remove as much chemical residue as possible

  • happirt on 17/12/2019 - 13:40

    no

  • [Deactivated] on 17/12/2019 - 14:05

    OP forgets that germs can breed better inside plastic too infact it can stay moist which is perfect for germs. Wash your veggies bozo! That's enough.

  • pegasusx on 17/12/2019 - 14:48

    Sounds like it would be easier to wrap OP in plastic.

  • PleasureMe on 17/12/2019 - 15:54
    +1

    Germaphobes are a funny breed

  • Fuzzy Toaster on 17/12/2019 - 16:09

    Well aren't you a precious princess. Shit and germs are everywhere, just learn to wash stuff.

  • anthony t on 17/12/2019 - 16:32

    Sorry, gtrdude, we spent the first 3,999,800,000 years of 'evolution' not existing. Please note that dinosaurs were the top of the food chain for 2,000,000 years (compared to our 200,000 so far). We're like amoebae on a petri dish. When the population reaches a certain level, we 'toxify' ourselves, as they do, out of existence.

  • Bystander on 17/12/2019 - 17:16

    Nice to hear from another environmentalist who doesn't blindly accept the Green propaganda we see in the media and in our schools.

    I for one am very proud of Australia's track record in caring for the environment. And I also very much like the convenience etc that comes from plastic in its many forms. Personally, I buy original Coles plastic bags from eBay and use those to carry my groceries. At home I reuse them as bin liners which will be eventually buried in well regulated waste disposal facilities.

    What I find interesting is that when reusable shopping bags were optional I saw that well over 90% of people would still ask for the free lightweight bags. As a result I suspect that most of the noise supporting less plastic is actually coming from a very vocal minority.

  • rinco on 17/12/2019 - 18:23

    If plastic is the answer then you are asking the wrong question.

  • DiscoJango on 17/12/2019 - 18:42

    OP: Learn how to structure your arguments. You had completely valid points, however you come across as a rambling fool for the rest of us to make fun of.

  • lonix on 17/12/2019 - 19:32
    +1

    Why are people so germophobic?

  • Herbse on 17/12/2019 - 19:41
    +1

    I'm all for reducing plastic waste but vegies do stay good for longer when they are wrapped up in the plastic. Which means less chance of them going off and going to waste.

  • wkd on 17/12/2019 - 20:49
    +1

    you’d probably get more germs touching the self serve screen than you would from the fruits and veggies

    • OzBozo on 20/12/2019 - 02:26

      Omg.I can't stand touch screens at self service. You don't want to know what I do, but I will grab a plastic fruit and veg bag and use it as a finger condom to touch the screen every time I use the self serve.

      I think the very worst one is the McDonald's self serve. Have you seen the animals in there sucking and licking the sweet and sour sauce of their fingers then going back up to the touch screen.
      Yes I could go wash my hands, but I would then have to grab the disgusting wet door handle which is always the only way out of a mc Donald's toilet.

      • c64 on 20/12/2019 - 21:11

        computer keyboards have been shown to have more bacteria than a toilet seat. so whatever you are typing on has lots and lots of nasty bacteria on it just waiting to infect you. something to think about …

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