December 22, 2007
Protected: Sometimes nothing is better than something
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December 21, 2007
PUR Flavor Cartridges (suck)
I am the worst case scenario when it comes to “person who wrote into my company”; someone who will 100% boycott their company & all of their subsidies (as far as I can trace them), read every ingredient on their products that I know I’ll never buy just so I know what the “big companies” are up to, will tell everyone I know and I’ll blog about the reasoning, too. In terms of commerce- which, let’s face it, means a lot- I am a free agent (sorta). No Evil Companies own me. It feels like it’s been forever (but maybe just a few years) that I started to do all my food and bath/body shopping at health stores. It felt so good. I used to feel pissed. “Albertson’s, why can’t you carry anything organic? Oh, there’s one $12 bottle of organic shampoo”. Then I realized that between Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and a little Whole Foods, that we could get everything we needed in better quality and for just marginally more money if you know how to shop. Which, I do. That was the point.
Anyway, I’m going to start writing more letters to companies that I don’t like (which is most of them) and posting them here.
I’m in the market for a water filtration system. When I saw PUR Flavor Cartridges, I almost died of happiness. Then I read the ingredients and was promptly saddened. Chemical sweeteners? Added into water that kids are going to drink, like, tons of? That’s so wrong. Let’s just err on the side of caution on this one, seeing as the possible consequences of sucralose, et. al. are so horrifying. Why not use stevia, the 100% safe, herbal, super sweetener, instead? Be an American pioneer, P&G! The thought of having my water filtered by PUR with stevia sweetened Flavor Cartridges makes me excited! Actually, that’s what I do now sometimes: add drops of flavored (liquid) stevia to my water with a squirt of lemon or lime. Think of this: root beer lemonade, maybe 5 calories, super sweet, and “all natural” since it’s herbal. Hah, I sound like a commercial for stevia, but I swear I’m just an obsessed fan and not an actual representative of a stevia-related company. Well, OK, that’s it for now. Stevia, please, in the Flavor Cartridges? (P&G, I will get back with you on many other issues at a later date.)
Initially, this started out serious then I realized how absolutely fucking ridiculous the entire situation was, and decided to go with it. “Dear Multinational Conglomerate, please stop putting deadly chemicals into this drink (that happens to be targeted to families and kids). Would you please substituting this other ingredient that has no downsides yet achieves the same thing as your current ingredient?” How surreal.
PS- OMG I love (the idea of) proper punctuation. I did some right, right?
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