Water bottle wrappers... paper... labels... ma-jiggs.

I feel it is my duty to contribute to the blog, since Jeff has been doing most of it of late. The topic of today's ramble is (drum roll, please)... the paper around water bottles! Firstly, save a tree, why doncha? I may be a tree-huger by nature (it's a pun! Ouch), but I think the paper wrapper is a little unnecessary. Who is going to read the nutritional information on water? And, yes -- there is also a "list" of ingredients. That's just in case the manufacturers wanted to slip a little fanged toad extract in there, I guess. Now, all the devil's advocates reading this will say, "The wrapper is used to advertise the manufacturer of the water, and the ingredients list and nutritional information are required by the FDA." To that I say: Whose great idea was it to sell water, anyway? What makes people buy for a dollar what they could get right out of their own kitchen sink? Convenience? Add it to the list of "Reasons why Americans do anything." -- because it's convenient. I think it's a CONSPIRACY. Is the water in bottles better? Not unless your water at home runs brown. As for the FDA's role, as long as people are particular enough to need the ingredients on a bottle of water, there's not much the FDA can do. Unless it's say, "Nah-nah!" and take the information off. I will conclude this ramble with one fact I think you all should know. If your red apple isn't organic, there's a pretty good chance that the skin is dyed red! Take a good bite out of your next apple, and see if the flesh of it has a little bit of dye bleeding in where you bit it. Without any grace or summing up whatsoever, that's all, folks.
-Maeve