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Your attempt to personalize this discussion makes no sense. Why don't you stick to the topic? Is the topic here conservatives and big government? Apparently, you think it is.
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I don't consider this type of decision making obsessively environmental but really a simple decision making process that is not particularly limiting.
Lots of small differences make a big difference.
What I look at when I shop:
1) Ingredients - look for shortest ingredient list, especially processed ingredients. More health based but has an environment impact as well I suspect.
Then...
2) I check to see where something is made/processed.
I live in Ohio, I buy sugar from the Midwest, not cane sugar from FL. (Plus can sugar has negative impacts on the everglades but that would be another list). Why buy canned green beans from across the country if the other brand comes from a couple of states away?
3) Packaging. If you have a choice between something in glass or plastic, glass. Plastic or cardboard - cardboard. Like laundry soap!
Any others?
Back on topic (ahem...) have you located you local Farmer's Market and or/CSA???
If you cannot grow you own, the chance to actually meet and greet your own local food suppliers can be amazing and enriching!
Rural living can be a bit different. I bulk buy about every 3 months simply because it is a 100 mile trip to a whole foods or farmers market. I recycle all my plastic and tin cans. It is a win-win for me and the invironment as I send out a 50 gal barrel every month. I also use invironmental friendly water softner salt (potassium), laundry and dish soaps and body products. My clothes actually look cleaner, too. These products do not contain lye, tar or wood - or at least not that I am aware.
Interesting. I bet you don't see cattle much where you live. Or maybe you don't realize that cattle eat grass, hay, and other items that we humans don't eat. Then again maybe you know something that I don't. Maybe the food companies are processing hay and making food for human consumption out of it. Oh wait the ranchers have been doing that for years. The tool that they process the grass lands and hay with are called cattle.
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