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Re: Unecessarily Packaged Food
« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2021, 06:06:36 PM »
Remember an old Consumer Reports where they had a box of cereal marked "New Larger Size!" in big letters except it was only the box that was bigger and not the contents which was the same as the old box. But it sure looked bigger on the store shelf compared to to the old box.
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Re: Unecessarily Packaged Food
« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2021, 10:01:38 AM »
This is appropriate for many threads lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTyjWDPAG8
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will... The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. ― Frederick Douglass

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