Am I The Only One That Wants More Plastic Packaging for My Fruit and Veges?

OzBozo on 15/12/2019 - 20:47
Last edited 15/12/2019 - 21:13

Seriously , I would like to buy a tomato, some grapes or a apple or whatever that hasn't had the hands of disgusting people who have to pick up every single apple on the pile before they make their choice or sneeze all over it. I have even seen Woolworths staff at the end of the day throw the dirty floor mats directly on top of the fruit and veg for the night so they can mop the floors.
And as for the people who think they are green who probably burnt the equivalent of 500 plastic bags worth of oil driving to the supermarket in their SUV, while smugly thinking they are saving the planet for buying a carrot with no packaging . I hope that salmonella its rolling around in from the raw chicken juice on the check out line conveyor belt makes you sick. because you make me sick.

lets face It. All the oil in the world is eventually going one of two ways.
It is either going to be turned in to plastic and buried back in the ground where it came from. Or its going to be burned into the atmosphere as petrol, which includes those smugs in their SUV'S thinking they are saving the planet eating their plastic free salmonella carrot.

You can all go to hell.
I want my carrot wrapped up in plastic.

Food & Grocery

Comments

  • loulou1 on 15/12/2019 - 20:53
    +220

    R U Ok?

  • Godric on 15/12/2019 - 20:53
    +9

    Perhaps you could take some inspiration from The Bubble Boy

  • chumlee on 15/12/2019 - 20:54
    +91

    You don't wanna know what farmer Joe does with those carrots before they leave the farm

    • vikvance on 15/12/2019 - 21:57
      +8

      Leaving jokes aside, there are actually a lot of infections linked to farm hands not washing their hands properly after going to the toilet, and then, the end consumers not washing the fruit & veggies properly before eating them.

      For example, there was this recent E.Coli outbreak in the US caused by Romaine Lettuce from California
      https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327137.php#1

      • Snoozer on 16/12/2019 - 18:33
        +7

        This article does not mention that farmers not washing their hands is the cause of outbreak. Did you actually read it?

        These infections are not really that common when you compare to deaths from cancer. We still don't know exactly how plastic chemicals affect our bodies.

    • abb on 16/12/2019 - 09:51
      +38

      I once bought a carrot that was covered in dirt, disgusting!

      • LFO on 16/12/2019 - 19:23
        +18

        Yuk … How on earth did the dirt got on the carrot????.
        Factory manufacturing error obviously.
        There should be safeguards on the production line …

        ;-p

        • cheapCheepCheap on 17/12/2019 - 12:26

          It got some treatment from a dirty farmer ;)

        • orangetrain on 17/12/2019 - 14:33

          I like my carrots via hydro. /logic

  • UserNameAlreadyTaken on 15/12/2019 - 21:00
    +68

    "You can all go to hell"
    Is that really you Folau?

    • LFO on 16/12/2019 - 19:24
      +3

      Nope … OP clearly wrote all … not just you know who …

      • sabracad on 17/12/2019 - 00:36
        +4

        In fairness to him Folau pretty much covered everyone too.

      • grasstown on 17/12/2019 - 14:09

        The unrepentant?

        • HighAndDry on 20/12/2019 - 10:57

          That'd make for a nice biblical nickname… Folau the Unrepentant.

  • WoodYouLikeSomeCash on 15/12/2019 - 21:05
    +7

    Just bring some Glad Wrap with you to the store.

    • apsilon on 16/12/2019 - 06:13
      +24

      You can buy it at the store and save transport costs, or just use the free bags that are in the fruit and veg section.

      Most radical idea, wash your fruit and veg at home.

  • ShannonN on 15/12/2019 - 21:10
    +6

    Condoms for carrots anyone? OOPs that's already been done I think LOL

    OP go here

  • dylanando on 15/12/2019 - 21:17
    +5

    I have to agree, some people are filthy, I’ve seen a man spit into some grapes before. Another guy coughing up his phlegm into a fruit bag and then leaving on shelf. If that’s what they do in public…

    • JacobHarvey on 16/12/2019 - 13:39

      That is a whole new level of nasty

    • LFO on 16/12/2019 - 19:26

      I have seen a woman putting a dirty nappy under the lettuce … appalling!!

      • bmerigan on 16/12/2019 - 20:57
        +1

        OMG I'd be making a scene over that!

      • GourmetFoodie on 17/12/2019 - 19:58

        WTF is wrong with people! Seriously! OMG.

  • p1 ama on 15/12/2019 - 21:20
    -2

    This probably isn't that horrible of an idea. When I was in Japan, everything was wrapped neatly and cleanly. If you bought something, it's probably wrapped in plastic, then wrapped in another layer of plastic and then sold in a plastic bag.

    • SydStrand on 15/12/2019 - 22:35
      +44

      Japan has almost zero litter, about 5 different types of bins outside every 7-11, and a populace that actually recycles

      • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 07:56
        +28

        They also respect their elderly, are capable of being quiet in public spaces and are terribly ashamed to take any handouts.

        • abb on 16/12/2019 - 09:56
          +47

          They're also quite xenophobic (that means 'racist', Pauline), have a high rate of suicide, cover-up mistakes rather than fix them, and under-report murders to appear better than reality. Sweet tentacle porn though (why does "the great wave off Kanagawa" get all the prints instead of "the dream of the fisherman's wife"?)

          • macrocephalic on 16/12/2019 - 12:15
            +4

            @abb: And their courts have a conviction rate of over 99% - because they don't proceed to court unless they think it's a certain case (fear or failure again) which means that there's not really any presumption of innocence in their courts.

            • CocaKoala on 16/12/2019 - 12:24
              -2

              @macrocephalic: Exactly! Beat me by 9 minutes. :-)

            • deme on 16/12/2019 - 13:45
              -1

              @macrocephalic: I think you'll find the latter part of your paragraph to be the cause.

              not really any presumption of innocence in their courts.

              You can have almost 100% conviction rate too, just require the accused to prove who actually did it.

            • SydStrand on 16/12/2019 - 23:39
              +4

              @macrocephalic: 99%? Thanks, Miles Edgeworth.

          • CocaKoala on 16/12/2019 - 12:24

            @abb: They could also lock up any random person for an inordinate amount of time, breaking them up physically and mentally to the point where they will "confess" to the crime that they may not even have committed. Only so that their "conviction rates" look excellent.

            • happirt on 17/12/2019 - 07:58
              -1

              @CocaKoala: you shouldn't believe everything you hear on YouTube

          • LFO on 16/12/2019 - 19:28

            @abb:

            They're also quite xenophobic

            All of them?

            I think Pauline will see that as racist …

            • abb on 17/12/2019 - 10:32
              +1

              @LFO:

              All of them?

              Of course not. I was speaking of cultural tendencies in general, much like those I replied to.

              (I actually really like Japan & Japanese culture, have been there and enjoyed it immensely, but it's foolish to treat them as perfect)

          • GregMonarch on 17/12/2019 - 11:03
            +3

            @abb:

            They're also quite xenophobic

            How many terrorist attacks in Japan?

            Note to World: Seems to be working for Japan.

          • [Deactivated] on 17/12/2019 - 14:00

            @abb: I've heard that the tentacle porn was just a way to circumvent some local censorship law.

      • Hirolol on 16/12/2019 - 09:59
        +1

        They burn a lot of it.
        I’m not sure what’s worse though, on one hand, if you just bury everything like we do, what happens when you run out of space?
        But then you have the emissions from burning everything.

        They have their shit together when it comes to recycling. My girlfriend was surprised when she saw we only have two bins.
        Even more so when I told her sometimes all this stuff just goes to the same place (according to the news)

        • Emerald Owl on 16/12/2019 - 13:31

          Do you know how much empty desert this country has. You cannot run out of room.

      • PleasureMe on 17/12/2019 - 15:52

        Japan also pays a fortune for their fruit. You get what you pay for.

      • Bargainbeth on 18/12/2019 - 18:50

        I've heard this too, though I wonder if they're wasteful of food. The fruit on shelves is always picture perfect in Japan, no mutated looking strawberries like those in Australia. I'm assuming they just bin these. But could be wrong. Perhaps they're going to business who use them in other ways.

  • Hybroid on 15/12/2019 - 21:21
    +12

    I would agree if we had a proper way to efficiently produce and dispose/recycle/reuse single-use plastics, but unfortunately there's no money in it and we don't. The plastic epidemic around the world is seriously catastrophically bad.

    We can't afford to keep going at the same rate we are. Also, fruit and veg food wash exists.

    https://cdn.nourishedlife.com.au/images/large/variant_730544…

    • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 07:55
      +1

      I've been given a few bottles of those things and have been struggling to find any evidence that it does anything whatsoever.

      • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 09:54

        I was advised to use ACV & grapefruit seed extract when we lived o/s and still use both now.

        Source

        • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 10:01

          That's a lab test taking confirmed contaminated surface and then testing the effects of the chemicals.

          I do not doubt that the chemicals work but does it actually reduce the risk of exposure when used in a home environment.

          Ie. Can you actually chemical wash the surfaces to the same standard and would one have fallen I'll if one just consumed regularly washed vegetables in the first place.

          • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 10:30

            @[Deactivated]: We had a few expat friends/colleagues felled by bouts of food poisoning which is what led me to use natural ingredients such as ACV & GSE - we never got sick from stomach bugs.

            • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 11:04

              @[Deactivated]: Yeah. Overseas is a different story entirely.

              In SEA, I would irradiate my food if I could.

              • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 11:21

                @[Deactivated]: I know what you mean!

                I've continued washing fruit & vegetables this way since returning to Aus - it's just part of the routine now.

  • garetz on 15/12/2019 - 22:00
    -3

    Buy organic, mostly covered in plastic.

    • fantombloo on 15/12/2019 - 22:31

      Not necessarily clean though, also probably more likely affected by pathogens in animal waste than "conventionally grown."

      • gromit on 17/12/2019 - 15:31

        you got modded down but you are actually correct. organic is generally not safer, just it isn't using chemical pesticides or fertilisers, however many of the natural ones often have to be used in far higher quantities to achieve the same affect and you need to absolutely ensure you are thoroughly washing organic stuff (though you should be washing all fruit and veg)

  • wombok2 on 15/12/2019 - 22:06
    +13

    Karen, is that you?

  • elgrande on 15/12/2019 - 22:18
    -4

    Don't forget mangoes that have been nose rubbed by those pretending to know what they are looking for..

    • Yawhae on 17/12/2019 - 12:33
      +2

      Are you eating the skin of a mango?

  • c64 on 15/12/2019 - 22:19
    +16

    rants of a germophobe. better not touch that shopping trolley …

    • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 07:54
      +19

      Trust me. That's not the rant of a germophobe.

      A true germophobe is very well aware that germs can exist behind a plastic barrier and thrive given the protective barrier.

    • macrocephalic on 16/12/2019 - 12:23
      +3

      Or the door handle, or your car door handle, or your shoes, or your light switch, or your phone, or… pretty much everything.

      Seriously! Should we unnecessarily destroy the environment just because the OP doesn't understand basic hygiene and how to wash vegetables

  • SydStrand on 15/12/2019 - 22:30
    +3

    Location
    Qld

  • OpenHand on 15/12/2019 - 22:38
    +44

    Wash your vegetables ya noob. Killing the planet because you're a germaphobe is on you.

    • matt3 on 15/12/2019 - 22:59
      +2

      Yeah OP, and take some Vitamin B to ease your anxiety levels. Plenty of vitamins in fruit and vegetables.

      • ChickenTalon on 17/12/2019 - 15:02

        B group vitamins you can actually absorb. For that you’ll be needing meat

    • DiscoJango on 17/12/2019 - 18:47

      Careful, your logical statement might force OP to retreat to a safe space, where opinions and counter arguments are forbidden.

  • pegaxs on 15/12/2019 - 23:01
    +4

    *epic rant*
    You can all go to hell.

    Username checks out… :D

  • FireRunner on 15/12/2019 - 23:16
    +2

    You'll have to grow your own vegetables at home to ensure people don't contaminate them

  • Laziofogna on 16/12/2019 - 00:03
    +1

    In Europe vegie shops supply disposable gloves to customers to wear before touching product.

    • driveahardbargain on 16/12/2019 - 23:22
      +1

      What are the gloves made of?!

      • Laziofogna on 16/12/2019 - 23:31

        It’s the same material of the plastic bags available here to bag your fruit or vegies

  • ozb10 on 16/12/2019 - 00:55
    +4

    You can pollute all you want, as long as you are willing to pay for it. Not just paying the cost of production, but also the cost of recycling, clean-up of the microplastics, instead of having the next generations bear your costs.

    • whooah1979 on 16/12/2019 - 09:52

      Sure send me the bill. I'll pay in installments.

      • deme on 16/12/2019 - 13:46
        +1

        15c per bag

  • Some Human on 16/12/2019 - 01:10
    -5

    I have a smililar attitude towards those idiots whinging about how the collectables from Woolworths/ Coles are going into landfill, yet have no issue using disposable nappies/ feminem hygeine products/ razors etc because they're "convenient".

    • AncientWisdom on 16/12/2019 - 12:32
      +3

      That's a different level of usefulness though.

      • Some Human on 16/12/2019 - 13:32
        +2

        Doesn’t matter, there are alternative long lasting products to all of the above on the market.
        I don’t think someone has the right to complain about one plastic toy being given away at the shops, when they’re throwing 5 nappies in the bin every day for a few years. Or 20 pads/ tampons per month for 30 odd years.
        I will keep the plastic woolies toys for a very long time, because I love Disney and enjoy looking at them.
        I will keep a pad for about 4 hours, then you guessed it, landfill. I only use disposables if they’re free samples.
        Not an eco warrior - gave that up after I watched a bunch of reno shows and watched them destroy perfectly good houses and throw out skiploads of rubbish. I thought, why am I bothering to save this paperclip when they just threw out a perfectly functioning kitchen just because it was “dated”? I bet the people whining about plastic toys do this exact thing without a second thought.

      • HighAndDry on 16/12/2019 - 14:55
        +1

        Seems just like they're willing to inconvenience everyone else but themselves.

  • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 07:43
    +4

    you can wash it then wrap it in gladwrap at home to make yourself feel better

  • Wonka on 16/12/2019 - 07:57
    +2

    You can buy many fruit and vegetables in tin or frozen in plastic bags.

  • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 16/12/2019 - 08:05
    +2

    I'm detecting quite a lot of emotion from the OP regarding this subject.

    • EightImmortals on 16/12/2019 - 09:16

      It's that time of the year again..as the song says: "Tis the season to be agro, whiny-whiny troll, fa-la, la la"

      Srsly though the number of people I have on 'ignore' on other forums ATM is reaching epic levels. I'm all for a good robust 'chat' but when the conversation descends to 'childish abuse' levels then it's time for action. I've noticed this phenomena happens every time this year…for whatever reason.

      • Friendly Troll on 16/12/2019 - 12:19

        My favourite song. Plz sing more.

        • EightImmortals on 16/12/2019 - 14:17
          +4

          Buy me toys from Nerf and Hasbro, fa-la-lalala, la la la la.
          Tis the season to be agro, whiny whiny troll fa la la la.
          Stuck in traffic, fighting shoppers, honk honk honk, bitch bitch bitch, spend spend spend.
          Tis the season to be crabby, fa la la la la,la la who…caaaarreesss!

      • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 16/12/2019 - 15:30

        To be honest I can't blame people too much for losing their marbles around Xmas time. Drives me nuts too.

  • Fudnut on 16/12/2019 - 08:51
    +5

    Did you watch "Drowning in Plastic" on SBS last night? If not, catch it on SBS on Demand. If you do, I'm sure you'll have a change of heart in wanting "more" plastic…

    • srr on 16/12/2019 - 17:25
      -5

      Just another scare campaign.

      • GregMonarch on 17/12/2019 - 12:48
        +1

        Well, less plastic is a good thing - however their reasons/claims are nonsense.

        I visited a council dump a few years ago where garbage was moving along a conveyor belt, and employees were ripping bags open to release the contents to pick (something) out of it before composting. Now FFWD to today… when we don't have shopping bags any longer, and deluded 'green' folks are crowing about less plastic in circulation. But there's a side effect of that - many people are now using their empty frozen food, etc. bags as rubbish bags instead.

        So instead of staff ripping open easily-torn shopping bags, they now have to rip apart much more robust bags - and more of them - which means it takes more time and/or gets less work done - which requires more staff employed - which means more petrol burned, more electricity for the conveyor, and to heat their showers after work, etc.

        Like most whacky 'green' delusions, it was a foolish and naive non-solution. They should have found a way to make the same bags from a different material that dissolves/breaks down - and then used THAT for ALL bags including the ones we're all now using for garbage instead. The USA for example has one-use plastic bags made of cornflour. The reason they didn't do this instead of just banning is, that it was never really about 'being green' or 'less plastic'. It was about control: making the lives of everyone else a little more miserable because they're miserable people.

      • Zaxxon on 17/12/2019 - 21:36

        ridiculous comment. The proof is there in plain sight. This issue is up there with climate change. In some countries people are consuming about a credit card of plastic a week, which will have devastating effects on their bodies. Fish and birds are being wiped out. We need to get our act together and fast.

        • srr on 17/12/2019 - 22:17

          Well if life has become so bad why then people live longer and longer? Literally in my lifetime 30+ went from being middle age to young.
          As to the species being wiped out it’s just natural selection where the most adapted will survive.

          • Zaxxon on 19/12/2019 - 20:11

            @srr: A little thing called penicillin, modern medical advances, white collar working environments, a lot less World Wars, etc.
            If 'natural selection' is your argument that I'm pulling stumps now.

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