I remember attending a trade show in which various food items were being introduced, and running across the vendor of a new orange soda that he marketed as “all-natural.”
“How much actual orange is in that can of soda?” I asked innocently.
“Zero,” came the response.
“Are you saying that 100% of the orange flavor comes from one or more chemicals that simulate the taste of an orange?”
“Exactly.”
Then in what sense can anyone possibly claim that this is a natural product? I’m not saying that it’s a bad product, but it’s certainly not natural.”
Greenwashing is all around us, and it’s not going away. There are organizations whose purpose is to identify and call out cheaters in this space, though it seems unlikely that they can keep up with the liars.
I agree with what Ricky Gervais says here; I would only add that there are dozens of ways religion impinges on others.
In my view, the most common is that it impedes our implementing science in things like climate change mitigation. If you believe, as is explicit in the Book of Genesis, that “only God can destroy the Earth,” you have a good excuse to ignore the entirety of climate science.
99% of this totally incorrect.
But hey, who cares, right? There’s a huge market for disinformation, and I’m sure you were handsomely paid.
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I’ve always wondered what this means. Christian Science? But if you reject science and hand your diseases over to Jesus, why would you need health coverage in the first place?
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