shit bitch, i have to wash this bag?

i read this little number in the toronto star today(which is a complete and total rag) :

"Cloth Bags Condemned"

apparently the plastics industry put out a warning to consumers that cloth bags are a health risk because they get...wait for it....

dirty.

cloth bags get dirty!

according to the canadian plastics industry association(who represent the interests of... the plastic industry), the bags can become contaminated with "fungus and bacteria" and that two laboratories tested 24 reusable bags and found "mould, yeast and bacteria, including intestinal fecal bacteria" in "many" of them.

according to their spokesperson cathy cirko the plastics industry is surprised by these results and they have a lot of health and safety concerns.

um, earth to plastics industry.. you have to fucking WASH cloth. of course there is bacteria and mould in a bag that you toss not only your groceries in every week but also everything else you can stuff in there!

should we all start wearing plastic underwear as well? throwing our clothes out after one wear? we should probably only eat from disposable plates and use disposable cutlery, and just start living in plastic houses as well.

so it's better that we use plastic bags that we can dispose of rather than simply washing our cloth bags once in awhile...? isn't that the whole point of the cloth bag? that we dispose of too much plastic?

probably we should only use plastic because, unlike their cloth counterparts, when animals in the oceans accidentally swallow them they won't be covered in bacteria and mould.

everyone wins!