I Oppose Small PLASTIC Containers for Single Servings of Food. Since We Already Have the Technology to Make Milk Cartons, WHY NOT use Waxed Paper for Cheese, Coffee, Yogurt and Sliced Ham?

I keep on seeing TV advertisements for Keurig Coffee that puts ONE CUP Worth of coffee grounds in a little PLASTIC container... Ridiculous! We have been brewing coffee for Hundreds of Years without Little Plastic Cups! You buy a two pound Aluminum Can and scoop a few spoonfuls into your percolator... or your drip coffee machine... using brown paper filters... simple, easy, clean, ecological and NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HAVE AN INVENTION THAT CREATES MILLIONS OF LITTLE PLASTIC CUPS!

and... I see advertisements for Sargento Cheese... Enough food for one snack enclosed in a LITTLE PLASTIC CONTAINER THAT WILL LIVE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Yogurt Cups... Oscar Meyer Ham slices, 8 rolled up slices in a "Handy" plastic box... AND... P3 a plastic box containing Cheese,, almonds and fruit.. just enough for lunch... AND... "Just Crack and Egg" - a tiny amount of chopped up vegetables that you can crack an egg into the PLASTIC container and Microwave to make an omelette... MICROWAVING PLASTIC? Doesn't that cause vaporized plastic to get into the food? Eating Poison!

I have been to the grocery store and can report that it is possible to walk right up to the deli counter and ask for a half pound of sliced ham AND THEY WRAP IT IN PAPER! I have seen two pound Bricks of Cheese encased in wax... I think it's the Tillamook Brand... I do buy some plastic wrapped food... a pound of hamburger is sold in a foam plastic tray wrapped in a thin clear plastic wrap... I feel certain we could use a cardboard tray... 

I believe the plan is to MAKE A TINY AMOUNT OF FOOD seem bigger so Corporations can charge more money per pound... In the mean time we are LAMINATING THE PLANET. 

Tales of My Participation in the Sierra Club's Work Crew - Camping Trip. Two Months in the Sierra Nevada picking up trash in 1970...

My Parents Suggested that I Work for The Sierra Club during the Summer of my Sophomore Year in High School. Fortunately, The Sierra Club got Funding from the Federal Government to Clean up Trails near a Popular Dirt Bike area... and Those Dirt Bike People were Horribly Destructive of the Forest... Garbage Everywhere... I Guess they HAD NO CLUE about Ecology... 

We Got a Giant Dumpster and a Sign Explaining Who and What the "Action Clean Up" was and we Got to Work... We Were VERY LAZY... We were Volunteers... However, We DID Burn as Much Trash as we could find and then Backpacked the Remaining Burnt Garbage OUT... Years Later I Found Out That The Program Became MUCH more Organized and Serious and THE CAMPERS PAID THE SIERRA CLUB TO GO... 

I saw a Bear sleeping on a Jeep's hood at night... when I walked near the Bear jumped up and ran away... This happened in the Little Kern River Basin Near Bakersfield, California... That was the Big Thrill of the Summer... 

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I went to a Masonic Promotion Ceremony for My Boss. His name was Glenn MacLellan and he was the owner of the San Jose Art, Paint and Wallpaper Store. I worked there unloading trucks and putting merchandise on the shelves in the store. The ceremony was "Really Goofy" in my humble Opinion... Grown men wearing aprons and chanting in a candle lit room... Just Like George Washington Did... 

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My Cousin Gary Lea is a Mason also... They have a little village of wooden homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the San Lorenzo River. We went there when I was a child to someone's birthday party. The river enters the Pacific Ocean at The Boardwalk on Main Beach... Gary used hypnosis to quit smoking tobacco. He had a visual Mantra that he would remember whenever he wanted to smoke. It was the O'Neil's Surf Shop Logo... I used this trick myself... why not? Gary figured out how to quit and I can simply use his technique... 

Read More of my Autobiography at :
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html