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Where has that bag been ? Brought into a grocery store where you expect clean food ?

Where is the Health Department to put an end to this biohazard ? This is life or death to me. Seriously.

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We also used to do without grocery stores, antibiotics, cleaning agents, refrigeration and the thousands of laws and taxes levied upon us by those in Washington. I’m all for saving the environment, but our society is legislating itself to death. More rules are needed as population grows and things evolve, but where will this end? Will the county throw you in jail for watering your lawn in the dry season? Add a fuel surcharge if that fuel is non-renewable? All of these things may sound sensible, but as laws build up, the cost of enforcing them is driven ever higher. In a state constantly fighting off bankruptcy, let’s do something to truly get things moving in the right direction again.

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the bags for produce/meat (i’ve never seen a plastic prescription bag)are the ones available in the produce/meat areas; not the same as the ones that they bag up your groceries in. so, different bags. just fyi.

like the woman in the article, we rely on our plastic bags (especially the olivers ones! which never have holes and are made from recycled plastic anyway) for cleaning litter boxes, and i have no idea what we will do once we stop being able to get them! better stock up now…

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Don’t forget that we use plastic bags because the brilliant people in government forced them on us because paper, recycled or not, was said to be killing ALL the trees. Plastic was the answer. Well, amazingly the government was wrong. So no paper, no plastic, we have to bring our own bags. Sweet. Not worth the effort to me.

Luckily the hassle will push more people to shop online, putting the union grocery stores out of business and many more people to government dependence. Glad they extended unemployment. You see, when people are limited in how much they can carry (based on the space in their own bags) a lot of excess consumption will go away. The same logic applies to smaller dinner plates. Smaller plates = smaller meals = less consumption. If I have to bring in my own bag, I’ll only carry what fits in it, thus I’ll purchase less. Less purchases, less revenue for stores, less sales tax for cities, less workers are needed. I won’t bother running to the CVS to pick something up, I’ll order it from Amazon. Saves me the gas. Oh look, less gas tax.

The government doesn’t realize that their endless regulation DOES cause people to change their way. The problem is that the government dopes are too short sighted to see the consequences of their actions. Look at the decision of changing to plastic in the first place.

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The science isn’t even behind this, but who cares, it’s all about feelings. It’s all about action based on whims of tofu eating narcissists.

There’s no escape in this country for common sense. We’re caught between judgmental hippies and judgmental bible thumpers. “Let me tell you how to live.” that’s all I hear from people these days.

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But first, I have a real stake in this bag ban. Sure, there are many people that use them myself included, and generally they are people that care about things. I am afraid the ‘lower on the Bell Curve’ folks won’t take the care with the bags that is necessary for public health concerns. I have no problem with the Prius drivin’ folks going to Trader Joe’s and FINALLY being able to park, and then using reusable bags. It’s the ones that you DON’T want any of their bags anywhere near you that bothers me. Big time.

Where is the County Health person on this ? I am serious, this is a huge concern for those with limited immunity.

Links–

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/05/the-case-of-the-contaminated-reusable-grocery-bag/#.UPMI2x073ko

http://uanews.org/story/reusable-grocery-bags-contaminated-e-coli-other-bacteria

There are more, Google it.

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Hmm, so a store may provide me with a bag as long as my purchase includes one of the above items. (Or will there be monitor to make sure no verboten items are commingled in bags? The Orwellian potential here is interesting.)

Assuming no enforcement monitor, then as a practical matter it doesn’t apply to grocery stores either.

Why, pray tell, are non-profit stores exempt? This looks like nothing more than upfront bias against stores that earn a profit and pay taxes. We wouldn’t, after all, want to encourage too much of that.

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Where have those used bags been ? In the backseat with a dog ? Then you want to put that suspect bag on a counter where fresh food is checked out ? I see a VERY serious public health issue there. Really- I don’t want your scrungy old bag sitting where my fresh bag (plastic) of lettuce is headed for ! Really

There are also far more plastic bags IN the bag than the bag itself ! Think about it. Heck one shampoo bottle could probably make 100 bags. That hot dog package ( custom sausage for the foodies) is heavy plastic and could make maybe 3 bags by weight. On and on. Look INSIDE the plastic bag, and most everything is in plastic. So they ban ONE of the myriads of plastic containers, and a minuscule amount by weight.

AND- “We don’t want to come out just with guns blazing,” said Patrick Carter, an administrative analyst with the waste management agency.
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Oh, the bag police will wait a few months for that. I foresee SWAT teams raiding a corner market holding everyone in place at gunpoint. Call it a ‘revolutionary act’ and bring in the FBI, Homeland Security and the TSA.

For the public health concerns–

I am VERY concerned, as I have an immunity disorder. Very concerned. The CDC (Center for Disease Control has even come out with findings and concerns.

Oh my, now they want to kill me.

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