No Yogis Were Harmed During the Making of Your Pants
Organic Fair Trade Yoga pants are here once again and this time they're low in cholesterol and Atkins friendly. Only the children of the highest quality yogis were chosen to make our newest line of clothing.
Every year it seems there are more marketing buzz words that pollute the biomass. Is there anything special about a shirt that makes it a yoga shirt? Is there anything special about a pair of pants that makes it more or less organic? Aren't we just talking about cotton here? I don't believe that I was planning on ingesting a pair of pants anytime soon, so I'm not sure why I need to have them grown in a cotton field that didn't use pesticides. If this is a case where the clothes are more environmentally friendly, then isn't the correct marketing term 'green' or 'environmentally friendly'? I guess green doesn't fit, since people may assume that all of the merchandise is a shade of green. Environmentally friendly is too long of a word to be useful as there wouldn't be enough room on the sign. It appears as though I have stumbled upon a new use of the word, where environmentally friendly now can be interchanged with organic. This should please right wing conservatives as their vocabulary can now be simplified further when denouncing the evils of leftism.
This picture was taken at Community Natural Foods on 10th Ave and 13th Street SW. I swear the day before I took this picture the sign read "Organic Yoga Pants Now In".
posted by corey stewart at 13:19
3 comments:
Dah, bloody hippies. Of all the things you could possibly spend your hard-earned hemp dollars buying. I suppose they're happy that pesticides from the cotton won't be rubbing against their precious skin, though frankly, doesn't processing and dyeing cotton require quite a few other chemicals?
I hate organic stuff, personally. This stems from an incident when a tub of organic baby greens from Superstore turned out to contain a three-foot long Russian thistle, folded cunningly under the untreated leaves. Yeah, normal farmers? wouldn't have that problem. Better living through chemistry. Love it.
15:12
How did you identify that it was Russian?
19:31
Yeah right, like I graduated from the faculty of ag/for and don't know Alberta's nuisance weeds. ;-)
Note: 'Russian' is just an epithet, just as in Canada thistle. In reality both species are circumpolar.
21:20
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