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OK, this is the next installment in my recent series of rants about the sad state of our world. The previous ones can be found [a href=\'http://forum.maidenfans.com/index.php?showtopic=9146\' target=\'_blank\']here[/a] and[a href=\'http://forum.maidenfans.com/index.php?showtopic=9403&view=findpost&p=112952\' target=\'_blank\']here[/a].
I was at the supermarket today, and these days, a certain item tends to capture my eye. I am talking about this one:
[img src=\'http://www.alexanderthegreat.de/bj.jpg\' border=\'0\' alt=\'user posted image\' /]
This is called "Beef Jerky".
Now, we all have our favourite brand of crisps (or chips) which sell you a bag filled halfway with crisps and halfway with air. They tend to become a huge nuisance when you try to stuff them into an already-filled bag, and more often than not, you find yourself opening them to release the air so the mass is reduced.
But this is different.
"Beef Jerky" is a snack made out of, as the package says, 98% beef, which looks like (and probably is) a waste product from cattle. This is certainly not condemnable, nor is the fact that it looks like (and probably is) the meat stuff you give dogs for them to chew on. Being a beef lover myself, I wouldn't even say that this tastes bad or is actually that bad for you.
What upsets me is the packaging. One bag of "Beef Jerky" contains 25g of the actual product. This fills about 1/5 of the bags volume. It is, literally, air with a bit of meat. It is a plastic bag, and judging from the information given on the package, it is not made out of recycled material (at least not with this particular brand).
This is a ridiculous waste of ressources, especially considering plastic is made out of oil.
I can imagine this big amount of air in the bag (I suppose the tenfold of the mass of "Beef Jerky" contained within can fit in) is because the dry beef needs this air in order not to rot or do anything like that. Still, it is ridiculous to sell a product that needs this mass of packaging. I think we could live without this kind of thing, so the waste of packaging is inexplicable. I won't even start talking about how this would make ecologists and economists cringe alike. It just makes me angry.
Note how it says "American Lifestyle" on the bag. If I were American, I would certainly be ashamed of this advertisement of "my" country abroad.
I was at the supermarket today, and these days, a certain item tends to capture my eye. I am talking about this one:
[img src=\'http://www.alexanderthegreat.de/bj.jpg\' border=\'0\' alt=\'user posted image\' /]
This is called "Beef Jerky".
Now, we all have our favourite brand of crisps (or chips) which sell you a bag filled halfway with crisps and halfway with air. They tend to become a huge nuisance when you try to stuff them into an already-filled bag, and more often than not, you find yourself opening them to release the air so the mass is reduced.
But this is different.
"Beef Jerky" is a snack made out of, as the package says, 98% beef, which looks like (and probably is) a waste product from cattle. This is certainly not condemnable, nor is the fact that it looks like (and probably is) the meat stuff you give dogs for them to chew on. Being a beef lover myself, I wouldn't even say that this tastes bad or is actually that bad for you.
What upsets me is the packaging. One bag of "Beef Jerky" contains 25g of the actual product. This fills about 1/5 of the bags volume. It is, literally, air with a bit of meat. It is a plastic bag, and judging from the information given on the package, it is not made out of recycled material (at least not with this particular brand).
This is a ridiculous waste of ressources, especially considering plastic is made out of oil.
I can imagine this big amount of air in the bag (I suppose the tenfold of the mass of "Beef Jerky" contained within can fit in) is because the dry beef needs this air in order not to rot or do anything like that. Still, it is ridiculous to sell a product that needs this mass of packaging. I think we could live without this kind of thing, so the waste of packaging is inexplicable. I won't even start talking about how this would make ecologists and economists cringe alike. It just makes me angry.
Note how it says "American Lifestyle" on the bag. If I were American, I would certainly be ashamed of this advertisement of "my" country abroad.