Food activist Marion Nestle, writing in The Atlantic, criticizes Coke and Pepsi’s efforts to develop a bottled made of 100 percent recycled material as environmentally wasteful. To Read the article, click here.
Editor’s Insight: Marion Nestle, one of the most influential food activists in the country, discounts the environmental benefits of a fully recycled bottle on the basis that the materials used deplete the environment of natural resources. Her premise is that soft drinks are unnecessary.
Can you imagine what kind of a world this would be if we only produced what was absolutely necessary for human survival? Radical environmentalists hold a very interesting set of values. Interesting as these values are, they beg the question: Do these people have a right to impose their minority-held views on the rest of society? 12-21-11 By Elliot Maras
