How many people remember back to the days when environmentalists complained about the excessive wrappers of common goods?
What followed?
Was it details about the garbage generated – annually on a per capita basis? There was that, but there was also something else.
Suddenly basic items – aspirin or other over-the-counter items were being tampered with. Suddenly items at the grocery were being poisoned. WHY! Where was the logic?
Suddenly discussion about landfills vanished and the amount of superfluous wrappings – for consumer safety – increased, and the vandals vanished? Items that could easily be poisoned, … those items that had never had “protective wrappers, still lack that protection – yet, the vandals did not touch them … they were never contaminated with drugs or hallucinogenic substances. How easily could something be injected into a plastic water, soda or juice bottle? How easily could spray be applied to fruits and vegetables? Yet they went untouched.
Only those items which generated profits for the wrapper makers were ever subject to attack. WHY?
And who was responsible? Or, Why did they stop? Why, if the idea was random harm, did they not find & launch another form of attack on society?
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