Okay....Today was a day I had been looking forward to for a while, ever since I saw a billboard up on Memorial advertising this event. There was a wellness expo at the State Fairgrounds today and it's theme this year was "Living Green and Efficient"! I love things like this, learning about recycling, bio-friendly cleaning products, how to de-mold your house, etc. Since this is specifically what was advertised, I thought for sure it would be an interesting time and since I am working on both a web-page and research paper on these types of things, it was a perfect research opportunity.......but I have just one thing to say about it.......
WHAT A LOAD OF HORSE MANURE!!!!!!!
In the whole expo hall, there was one small booth with cleaning products and a small, un-manned table from the OKC-DEQ with some free stickers that said "USE LESS STUFF". Everything else was home repair products, with NO emphasis on what made the eco-logically friendly, or "green". A bunch of chiropracters (I think like 5 different totals), someone who made wooden fish carvings, displays that sold the latest in "ion revitalization" which is supposed to soak all the metobolic wastes out of your body through your feet (like, whatever) and my personal favorite was the women who stopped my mother and I by walking right in front of us and holding up her hands and asking us how did we eat our produce and trying to sell us pills that contain all the vitamens and minerals that our body requires from fruits and vegatables, so we would have to eat the real ones....it would have seemed plausible, except for all of her assistants that walked around pretending they were on the phone, only the "phone" was a banana. Then another woman saw me talking on my cell phone and rushed up to me with a flyer on how cell phones cause brain cancer, and I should buy this magnet that she was selling to reduce those harmful cell phone waves attacking my brain....
It was like the Twilight Zone and if this is what passes for a "green living" expo then we are in trouble. No wonder, most people think that environmentalists are crazy, because if this expo was their first encounter with "environmentalists" I have to say they would be correct in their assumptions.
Saving the environment, and working towards a more bio-friendly household are noble causes and should not be presented as the latest "snake-oil" fixes. Nice advertising job! Because it wasn't even close to what it was presented to be!
2 comments:
I hate to tell you but I think that is what is called "sucked in". You just got sucked into the advertising lies. Have you ever signed up for those free laptops on the internet, all you have to do is fill out this huge questionaire. I don't think the questionaire really ever is finished, I think they rely on the fact that you will give up, but they have received enough information about you to bomb bard you with emails from other advertisers that they sell your information to. It is kind of scary that they take something as positive as creating a better society and make it into someone trying to make money. I am sorry that you had a bad experience. They suck!
You gotta love Oklahoma sometimes....seems like they grasp at straws.
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