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      <![CDATA[What's wrong with just changing the bags to biodegradable? The jobs are preserved because everyone needs bags.
        
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      <![CDATA[Just a question. While plastic bags are bad for the environment, what will happen to the people who's job it is to produce them?
        
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      <![CDATA[This kind of PR tactic was a favorite of Edward Bernays, considered the Father of PR. He would create completely separate front organizations and coalitions and more, with their own stationary and p.o. boxes, to promote the goals of his clients.
        
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      <![CDATA[thank you Berman and humanewatch and fighting the good fight--standing up for people to continue to have FREEDOM!!! And, HSUS needs a watchdog.
        
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      <![CDATA[The Center for Union Facts on teacher's unions. <br>
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      <![CDATA[Thank you, Richard Berman.
        
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      <![CDATA["...re-useable grocery bags made from cotton and other materials."<br>
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Which have recently been shown to contain numerous so-called hazardous materials.<br>
        
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      <![CDATA[FRIDAY, AUG 10, 2007 08:35 ET<br>
Plastic bags are killing us<br>
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/10/plastic_bags<br>
The most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, the lowly plastic bag is an environmental scourge like none other, sapping the life out of our oceans and thwarting our attempts to recycle it.
        
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      <![CDATA[The Tennessee General Assembly should enact legislation that would allow local governments --- county, municipal, and metro --- to pass business-friendly local carryout grocery bag fees across Tennessee and a means to greatly reduce both the volume of carry out shopping bags that are going directly from state consumers and into local landfills and to help Tennessee retail business reduce their expenses for carryout plastic shopping bags by providing consumers with the incentive to shop with re-useable grocery bags made from cotton and other materials.
        
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