Does Anyone Drink Macb?

[Chicofan]

Bottled water in any shape or form is a fckn rip off....however flavoured carbonated drinks are acceptable as part of a calorie controlled diet

[The Sunnylaw Jag]

Don't have to read it. Don't have to comment on it. Plenty of other topics for you to read.

 

But as MacB (Sangs of Banff.) are our major sponsor I think talking about them is relevant.

 

As for mince, I don't see any butcher or Meat Council sponsoring us!

I was in Banff earlier this year and now I know why Devronvale are sponsored by them also.

[Norgethistle]

Don't have to read it. Don't have to comment on it. Plenty of other topics for you to read.

 

But as MacB (Sangs of Banff.) are our major sponsor I think talking about them is relevant.

 

As for mince, I don't see any butcher or Meat Council sponsoring us!

 

Plus with our pies being that crap, doubt the contents have ever been near a butchers

[The Cup]

A quick update on this. A MacB drinker has been found-

 

 

[The Sunnylaw Jag]

God, it disnae half rot yer teeth!

[Garscube Road End]

God, it disnae half rot yer teeth!

 

NOT if you have a set of wallies!!

[yoda-jag]

God, it disnae half rot yer teeth!

 

without wishing to take this thread off on a huge tangent, and environmental discussion, am i the only one who finds the human fascination for paying extortionate amounts for what is (or should be) a natural (and free) resource of earth, which is packaged up in possibly the worst possible material?

 

look at nestle for instance. the planets biggest in bottled water brands (they have over 60 different brands/subcompanies). they pay fractions of a penny for water (where they are not taking it for free), filter it (which any individual earthling can do), and either sell it that way, or add a hint of a flavour to it, and sell it for 1000s of percentages of profit.

 

there are hundreds if not thousands of examples of what is the great water ripoff, and selling it back to those whose basic rights should see water for all.

nestle for example (where they pay for extracting water from a particular site), pay a landowner in usa $10 for every truck (35,000 litre capacity) that fills up. an average day sees 300 truck runs between their nearest plant and the land from which it is removed from. so the landowner is getting $3k a day (not bad you may think), but to put that into perspective, thats for over 10 million litres of water. how much does 10 million litres of bottled water sell for?

the city of aurora gets $160k a year from nestle, in return for 300 million litres a of water a year ..... and that is a 20 year contract! (which will run to 2030)

last month it was revealed that in canada (british columbia), that due to B.C.’s lack of groundwater regulation, Nestlé Waters Canada — a division of the multi-billion-dollar Switzerland-based Nestlé Group, the world’s largest food company — is not required to measure, report, or pay a penny for the millions of litres of water it draws from their lakes and wells and then sells across Western Canada. according to the provincial Ministry of Environment, “B.C. is the only jurisdiction in Canada that doesn’t regulate groundwater use ..... The province does not license groundwater, charge a rental for groundwater withdrawals or track how much bottled water companies are taking from wells,”

 

and then there is issue of the what the water is sold in ..... plastic bottles. plastic bottles can take hundreds if not 1000s of years to completely biodegrade. this has massive issues for planet earth. for example, look at the oceans ..... millions of discarded plastic bottles are finding their way into them, and due to tidal movements and how the oceans are affected by currents and streams, there are areas of the ocean that are either islands of bottles on the seabed or virtual corridors of endless miles of bottles (and other plastics, such as bags) shifting back and forth, and the impact of this is the slow death of vast areas of marine life, which in the grand cycle of life, is going to kill your planet.

 

and yet you humans happily let likes of nestle essentially steal your water, package it up and sell it back to you in 500ml bottles at a proportinate rate that is more than what you pay for litre of petrol. and when you have drank the water, you discard its container, a container that may not biodegrade completely until the 3000s, thats 30,40,50 generations away.

 

 

madness!

[The Cup]

without wishing to take this thread off on a huge tangent, and environmental discussion, am i the only one who finds the human fascination for paying extortionate amounts for what is (or should be) a natural (and free) resource of earth, which is packaged up in possibly the worst possible material? look at nestle for instance. the planets biggest in bottled water brands (they have over 60 different brands/subcompanies). they pay fractions of a penny for water (where they are not taking it for free), filter it (which any individual earthling can do), and either sell it that way, or add a hint of a flavour to it, and sell it for 1000s of percentages of profit. there are hundreds if not thousands of examples of what is the great water ripoff, and selling it back to those whose basic rights should see water for all. nestle for example (where they pay for extracting water from a particular site), pay a landowner in usa $10 for every truck (35,000 litre capacity) that fills up. an average day sees 300 truck runs between their nearest plant and the land from which it is removed from. so the landowner is getting $3k a day (not bad you may think), but to put that into perspective, thats for over 10 million litres of water. how much does 10 million litres of bottled water sell for? the city of aurora gets $160k a year from nestle, in return for 300 million litres a of water a year ..... and that is a 20 year contract! (which will run to 2030) last month it was revealed that in canada (british columbia), that due to B.C.’s lack of groundwater regulation, Nestlé Waters Canada — a division of the multi-billion-dollar Switzerland-based Nestlé Group, the world’s largest food company — is not required to measure, report, or pay a penny for the millions of litres of water it draws from their lakes and wells and then sells across Western Canada. according to the provincial Ministry of Environment, “B.C. is the only jurisdiction in Canada that doesn’t regulate groundwater use ..... The province does not license groundwater, charge a rental for groundwater withdrawals or track how much bottled water companies are taking from wells,” and then there is issue of the what the water is sold in ..... plastic bottles. plastic bottles can take hundreds if not 1000s of years to completely biodegrade. this has massive issues for planet earth. for example, look at the oceans ..... millions of discarded plastic bottles are finding their way into them, and due to tidal movements and how the oceans are affected by currents and streams, there are areas of the ocean that are either islands of bottles on the seabed or virtual corridors of endless miles of bottles (and other plastics, such as bags) shifting back and forth, and the impact of this is the slow death of vast areas of marine life, which in the grand cycle of life, is going to kill your planet. and yet you humans happily let likes of nestle essentially steal your water, package it up and sell it back to you in 500ml bottles at a proportinate rate that is more than what you pay for litre of petrol. and when you have drank the water, you discard its container, a container that may not biodegrade completely until the 3000s, thats 30,40,50 generations away. madness!

 

There are worse things in the world, like diet fizzy juice.

[Norgethistle]

without wishing to take this thread off on a huge tangent, and environmental discussion, am i the only one who finds the human fascination for paying extortionate amounts for what is (or should be) a natural (and free) resource of earth, which is packaged up in possibly the worst possible material?

 

look at nestle for instance. the planets biggest in bottled water brands (they have over 60 different brands/subcompanies). they pay fractions of a penny for water (where they are not taking it for free), filter it (which any individual earthling can do), and either sell it that way, or add a hint of a flavour to it, and sell it for 1000s of percentages of profit.

 

there are hundreds if not thousands of examples of what is the great water ripoff, and selling it back to those whose basic rights should see water for all.

nestle for example (where they pay for extracting water from a particular site), pay a landowner in usa $10 for every truck (35,000 litre capacity) that fills up. an average day sees 300 truck runs between their nearest plant and the land from which it is removed from. so the landowner is getting $3k a day (not bad you may think), but to put that into perspective, thats for over 10 million litres of water. how much does 10 million litres of bottled water sell for?

the city of aurora gets $160k a year from nestle, in return for 300 million litres a of water a year ..... and that is a 20 year contract! (which will run to 2030)

last month it was revealed that in canada (british columbia), that due to B.C.’s lack of groundwater regulation, Nestlé Waters Canada — a division of the multi-billion-dollar Switzerland-based Nestlé Group, the world’s largest food company — is not required to measure, report, or pay a penny for the millions of litres of water it draws from their lakes and wells and then sells across Western Canada. according to the provincial Ministry of Environment, “B.C. is the only jurisdiction in Canada that doesn’t regulate groundwater use ..... The province does not license groundwater, charge a rental for groundwater withdrawals or track how much bottled water companies are taking from wells,”

 

and then there is issue of the what the water is sold in ..... plastic bottles. plastic bottles can take hundreds if not 1000s of years to completely biodegrade. this has massive issues for planet earth. for example, look at the oceans ..... millions of discarded plastic bottles are finding their way into them, and due to tidal movements and how the oceans are affected by currents and streams, there are areas of the ocean that are either islands of bottles on the seabed or virtual corridors of endless miles of bottles (and other plastics, such as bags) shifting back and forth, and the impact of this is the slow death of vast areas of marine life, which in the grand cycle of life, is going to kill your planet.

 

and yet you humans happily let likes of nestle essentially steal your water, package it up and sell it back to you in 500ml bottles at a proportinate rate that is more than what you pay for litre of petrol. and when you have drank the water, you discard its container, a container that may not biodegrade completely until the 3000s, thats 30,40,50 generations away.

 

 

madness!

 

We always have the choice, buy it in bottles or drink from the tap no one forces us to buy it, no one forces us to drink coffee or tea or coke, we could survive on plain tap water