Responsible Consumer Gifts

'All this stuff's made in sweatshops - its awful! I'm not buying clothes someone's sweated on!'

"Good For You / Bad For You"

...And he calls himself the 'Green' Giant...

"Stop the throw-away mentality! Save resources! A New Year every 750 days is quite enough!"

What do you mean you prefer the sound of the sign of the right?! What part of 'either way we're dead' do you not understand?

"Wait—did you procure that worm humanely?"

How can he sleep so comfortably knowing that pillow will someday be clogging a land fill...

A tourist inadvertently destroying the place he is visiting

"Wild-caught, farm-raised, lab-grown, beach-found, or aquarium-harvested."

'I'm a vegetarian.' - 'If it's so wrong to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?'

"We're odd looking but just as good."

"This is locally grown and good for the environment, but it may give you greenhouse gas."

The candy house, if the tale of Hansel and Gretel would happen today.

"The lobster dinner is thirty eight dollars, or for ten dollars extra you can have him returned to the sea."

'Excuse me - are you organic?'

"Being vegan or vegetarian isn't enough anymore. From now on I will only cook stuff I stepped in on the sidewalk."

'Do you ever think about how we can reduce our global footprint?'

"Can I get this to go in an organic, locally recycled, eco-friendly doggie bag?"

"On second thought, just give me the ham and forget the roast beef."

"Plastic straws. No fish were spared in the making of this product."

'The U.S. has less than 5% of the world's population, but consumes 25% of its natural resources. Pretty outrageous, isn't it?'

I'd like a mocha almond vanilla latte...hold the coffee.

Supermarket Aisles: 'Good for the Environment' and 'Couldn't give a flying F@$#! about the environment!'

Consumption Graph.

ONE MORNING WHILE GETTING DRESSED,

"Secondhand books, reheated coffee"

are you so alienated from any real form of community that you can no longer distinguish between belonging and conforming?

Pets: This animal has not been tested on products.

"You might say I'm middle-of-the-road. I'd buy a fur coat but I wouldn't buy a Japanese fur coat."

"Do you carry any shampoos that have been tested on little kittens?"

'Yes, the wood on this pencil is from a renewable source.'

'Of course, I buy only organic foods... I like to be environmentally friendly.'

'These fruits and vegetables are very colorful, large, free of blemishes, pulpy and tasteless.'

"And getting rarer by the day, madam!"

Horn of Plenty.