lunchbooks
Sep. 14th, 2020 09:21 amI bought a lot of used packed-lunch-specific cookbooks because we want to try to get away from our default of driving through somewhere and eating in the car when we want to get out of the house (and instead make our own lunches and drive somewhere to eat in the car...).
This one is written by a woman who invented a reusable bag. Well, good for her so far. And then every recipe is accompanied by an "eco tip" to help you reduce plastic waste which are usually obvious and banal--when buying lunch meat go to the deli counter and get just as much as you need, and bring (one of her) bags with you to put it in instead of prepackaged slices!--but sometimes are "Bzuh?"--shop bulk and bring your own glass jars to put the bulk stuff in! I mean, what grocery store is she shopping at that allows you to bring your own jar to weight the bulk stuff in? The scales in the ones I see are all tared for the containers they provide!
This is, of course, completely ignoring the facts that (a) a small fraction of the public is in the position to actually get to and shop at the sort of upscale grocery store that provides bulk foods and (b) the problem of overused plastics is huge and systemic and individual consumer's use is but a small fraction of that, so even if all her readers stopped using plastics altogether it wouldn't make a fucking dent. And convincing individual consumers that the problem would be solved if they stopped using plastic bags turns attention away from the real sources of the problem.
I mmmight be a wee bit bitter.
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This one is written by a woman who invented a reusable bag. Well, good for her so far. And then every recipe is accompanied by an "eco tip" to help you reduce plastic waste which are usually obvious and banal--when buying lunch meat go to the deli counter and get just as much as you need, and bring (one of her) bags with you to put it in instead of prepackaged slices!--but sometimes are "Bzuh?"--shop bulk and bring your own glass jars to put the bulk stuff in! I mean, what grocery store is she shopping at that allows you to bring your own jar to weight the bulk stuff in? The scales in the ones I see are all tared for the containers they provide!
This is, of course, completely ignoring the facts that (a) a small fraction of the public is in the position to actually get to and shop at the sort of upscale grocery store that provides bulk foods and (b) the problem of overused plastics is huge and systemic and individual consumer's use is but a small fraction of that, so even if all her readers stopped using plastics altogether it wouldn't make a fucking dent. And convincing individual consumers that the problem would be solved if they stopped using plastic bags turns attention away from the real sources of the problem.
I mmmight be a wee bit bitter.
Some more tips...( Read more... )