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So many flowers in public yesterday.
"Happy plant hysterectomy day"?
"Show her you love her, give her unregulated pesticides from Guatemala"?
Etc, etc. It feels tacky to write anything aboiut child labour. I hadn't thought so many people would honestly buy hothouse roses with all the talk of cynicism on Valentine's day, but there were a lot out there. Ouch. It's such a good arena to make informed choices in, because of all the symbolism. Doing some sort of a flowering potted plant is mostly better, even if it dies like the cut flowers would-- or find something from a local grower.
http://www.laborrights.org/projects/flowers_index.htm
This is not to mention that a lot of the greenery that comes with them (namely the salal, the flat dark green oval leaves with the leathery texture) are harvested from the wild, from places like our wilderness park areas-- there are no significant rules regulating this sort of thing, and areas tend to be stripped clear pretty fast, leading to wildlife trouble (salal is one of our primary berry-bearing plants around BC) and just plain ugliness and disruption.
Next year's topic: fair trade chocolate.
"Happy plant hysterectomy day"?
"Show her you love her, give her unregulated pesticides from Guatemala"?
Etc, etc. It feels tacky to write anything aboiut child labour. I hadn't thought so many people would honestly buy hothouse roses with all the talk of cynicism on Valentine's day, but there were a lot out there. Ouch. It's such a good arena to make informed choices in, because of all the symbolism. Doing some sort of a flowering potted plant is mostly better, even if it dies like the cut flowers would-- or find something from a local grower.
http://www.laborrights.org/projects/flowers_index.htm
This is not to mention that a lot of the greenery that comes with them (namely the salal, the flat dark green oval leaves with the leathery texture) are harvested from the wild, from places like our wilderness park areas-- there are no significant rules regulating this sort of thing, and areas tend to be stripped clear pretty fast, leading to wildlife trouble (salal is one of our primary berry-bearing plants around BC) and just plain ugliness and disruption.
Next year's topic: fair trade chocolate.
