Left Holding the Bag

The far left is holding the bag. The plastic bag that is. Tana Senn and her buddy Dan Grausz think you’re not capable of making an informed decision on what kind of bag you want to use. She wants to make that choice for you. She has spearheaded the plastic bag ban, ignoring those informed citizens who know that the ethane used to make the convenient bags would otherwise be burnt off with all that CO2 heading straight into the atmosphere. Personally I’m a paper bag man myself, but many have made the case to me that the biodegradable plastic bag is actually far better for the environment. When I do choose the plastic grocery bags, you know for leaky meat packages – that sort of stuff, I reuse them to line my trash cans, or for walking the dog. Would Ms. Senn prefer I use the plastic bags they provide at all the parks in town instead or are those about to disappear as well. Apparently she wants us all stepping into this mess with her.

Remember the e coli tragedy that struck us here on the Island? Well guess what rose rampantly in San Francisco from folks using those cloth grocery bags after they banned plastic there. My mom unfortunately passed away from flesh eating bacteria, the doctors said they couldn’t cut it out fast enough. I know e coli is different but it is no less a health risk. Ms. Senn can arrange her priorities as she sees fit. Those that agree with her can do the same. Leave the rest of us to make the choices we want to make.

Aren’t you tired of these ideological battles coming all the way down to the local level. Can’t we come home to where we live and just make sure the bills get paid and the place is kept up properly? Do they really have to force us into arguments all the time?

“You can’t get the bugs out just by washing them – it will get rid of some of the bacteria, but not all of them.”

Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, told MailOnline that ‘bags for life’ should not be used to carry raw meat or vegetables with soil on them