heal the world…buy leather!
you know with all the talk about people living forever and the world taking a huge toll on its environment because of too many people/waste and lack of resources. then we are bombarded with commercials from campaigns like ‘flick off’ and using hybrid cars, and how environmentalism can be cool. and i am a bit of a hippy at heart…but sometimes i feel like i don’t know what to do. referring to another blog done today a paperless world would seem quite helpful to the environment right now. the world is changing and getting more extreme in natural disasters, storms, and everything seems to be getting bumped up a notch, or five. my point being i was looking at the ‘flick off’ campaign today and one of their websites is resourced by roots. now this is all well and good, but…BUT if you visit the roots website link, you may be surprised, or not, by the visible online store attached specifically to the website. including a link to purchase leather bags! now i am not crazy against fur/leather…and i really enjoy steak but i felt like that was really tacky and shocking! if you are trying to help out with the environment then why would you even have some kind of link to sell bags made from cow skin. wow how sad does that seem, i am all for energy saving, but it seems like that particular link was sad and ironic and just wasn’t taking the subject (of global warming and feed lots/cows farms) seriously.
mind you some proceeds will go to help the environment blah…but seriously if you are going to try and look like a good supporting site/company then don’t sell leather bags on your friggin’ website! seriously no class!
here’s the link…check it out if not even to just shake your head=)
http://www.roots.com/new_canada/html/index_flickoff.shtml?gclid=CPzXrqHF5o0CFRKzhgodKxyasg
