Never mind that Dihydrogen Monoxide stuff, here's the latest eco-horror....

June 22, 2001 11:37 PM

Never mind that Dihydrogen Monoxide stuff, here's the latest eco-horror.... A landfill supervisor urges that this theobromine laced substance not be placed in regular landfills because of the toll it takes on animals. Yet it can be freely bought by children.....
posted by BGM (7 comments total)

I have a dog, so I knew it was chocolate as soon as theobromine was mentioned. Is the National Post having a slow news day?
posted by lia at 11:54 PM on June 22, 2001

No, it was an editorial. There hasn't been a slow news day in Canada for quite some time.
posted by BGM at 11:58 PM on June 22, 2001

A toddler so adorable that Anne Geddes herself wouldn't know how to photograph it could spontaneously burst into flames every time I go to eat some chocolate, and all I'd do is find a more secure place so the protestors couldn't get me.
posted by dong_resin at 12:26 AM on June 23, 2001

Heh. dong_resin, you crack me up...

Next week: Bananas: the yellow menace.

I think I'm going to sign all of my blog postings that way from now on. Either that or it could be a new Metafilter tagline: "MeFi: The New #006699 Menace"
posted by fooljay at 12:49 AM on June 23, 2001

Anyway, who the hell throws chocolate in the garbage? Chocolate's not the sort of thing you waste!
posted by binkin at 4:59 AM on June 23, 2001

an article was run in the vancouver sun yesterday about this. It was on the front page too. I guess people get bored of hearing about the nurses/transit strike which is mentioned on at least 3 pages.
Supposedly about 20 seagulls died because of this. NOT THE SEAGULLS!
posted by starduck at 8:41 AM on June 23, 2001

Here's the original article.
posted by dws at 10:01 PM on June 23, 2001