Harris Teeter, Bi-Lo and Food Lion are among supermarket chains the World Wildlife Fund says have agreed to stop selling toilet paper products made from wood pulp harvested from sensitive Sumatran jungles.
The jungles are one of the last remaining habitats for wild tigers in Indonesia, of which there are only about 400 left, the WWF says.
"WWF believes that consumers should not have to choose between tigers and toilet paper," the WWF wrote. "And responsible U.S. companies should not source tissue products that are driving Sumatran tigers to local extinction."
The company in question is Asia Pulp & Paper, which provides pulp for the brands Paseo and Livi, the WWF said. The company's pulp is also used in other "away from home products" sold to places that maintain public restrooms. WWF accuses the company of destructive practices that are harming the jungle.
For more details, you can read the WWF's report here.
Ely, I love the headline; I had to bite. I just kept thinking of how toilet paper is dangerous to tigers. I thought I better go pick up a couple of 4 packs, just in case a tiger comes to my door.
ReplyDeleteGreat story...keep up the good work!
Use a bidet, you can buy one that attaches to your regular toilet for around $40.00
ReplyDeleteThank you, Harris Teeter, Bi-Lo and Food Lion!
ReplyDeleteTigers love pepper, they hate toilet paper
ReplyDeleteWhen they pulled Maurice's BBQ Sauce off the shelf for his convictions a comment was made in this paper that thank goodness there is nothing controversial about toilet paper. Well.... I guess it just took a while!
ReplyDeleteYou have to be kidding with the headline - reads like "if we don't get the TP off the shelves, any tigers exposed to it could be injured." NUTS
ReplyDeleteUh, Ely... Please explain how the toilet paper is dangerous to tigers as your headline says. Could it be that the forest destruction is dangerous?
ReplyDeletereally?
ReplyDeleteWhat a pain in the a**!
ReplyDeleteI only read the headline, but why would a tiger have access to toilet paper? And even if he did, he lacks the thumbs to reload the roll on the wall.
ReplyDeleteAnd to add to the previous comment...I guess if a tiger walks into Harris Teeter, you aren't going to argue with him if he wants toilet paper. I am more concerned that tigers are in Harris Teeter.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see these stores take on a bit more social responsibility.
ReplyDeleteYea all you animal rights activist tree hugging tiger killer ass wipes out there. Amazing how they can send a rocket to Jupiter and beyond but cant invent a damn paper-less butt wiper to prevent tiger extinction.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the problem? Just another do-gooder, left-wingl liberal activist group trying to impede captialism.
ReplyDeleteSo what, if a few tigers are lost? What's important is that companies (who are people, too) be given free rein to decide how to use the natural resources that God gave us.
Corporations know what is best for the world.
How many people saw "WWF" and had to remember that they weren't talking about wrestlers?
ReplyDeleteI am the great cornholio! I need tp for my bung hole!
ReplyDeleteWe really need to take steps to protect all those tigers in the Carolina's by removing toilet paper from stores. The enviro wacknuts need to be more reasonable. You know, like those crazies in the tea party!
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I knew Disney does not dispense plastic straws and cup lids around Animal Kingdom to prevent any interaction with the animals.
To all the Ass-wipes I really don't want my child and grandchild to see a Tiger on a list of extinct animals. I am sure many other animals are being harmed in the process as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Harris Teeter, Bi-Lo and Food Lion
You don;t have to worry about tigers in Harris-Teeters, they prefer Waffle Houses.
ReplyDeleteWhile I would hardly advocate for the extinction of any specific species, we really need to get over the idea that anything that challenges the current state of evolution must be stopped.
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that adaptation to changing environments IS what evolution is all about. Efforts such as that highlighted amount to the idea that anything that could require an evolution in a species behavior or physical nature in order to survive must be avoided. The reality is that species have come an gone since the beginning of life. Much of that is the result of the conflict of one species with another for habitat and food, with one species losing out to another. IT is idiotic to hold that mankind must always be the loser in that very natural conflict.
I see that Harris Teeter, where I shop, has taken responsible action. Way to go! I'll be there to shop again this week.
ReplyDeleteTandemfusion misses the point. Of course many billions of species have come and gone over the course of the planet's evolution. But what's happening now is a global pandemic of extinction caused by man's activities. Just as we are changing the actual climate by runaway production of greenhouse gasses, we're rapidly changing the biosphere by wiping out entire segments of the global food chain. The largest species of animals are usually the most vunerable.
ReplyDeleteWe could do a lot better, but too many people are either apathetic or don't think anything can be done without "hindering progress". That's nonsense, but it's all part of the propaganda effort that says environmentalism and attention to climate change are silly liberal causes best ignored. We ignore them at our peril.
May be dangerous to tigers, but it's harmless to my butt. They can send all that toilet paper to my house.
ReplyDeleteOh, no! How many Sumatran children will go hungry because their parents were laid off from the toilet paper factory in Sumatra?
ReplyDelete". . .in the tall cotton, wiping with the tender leaves!"
ReplyDelete...or how many will be eaten by the tigers that breed heartily...?
ReplyDeleteI guess that means I will have to start keeping a pile of leaves next to the toilet.
ReplyDelete....But they still sell cigarettes.
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