What Next?

A friend just sent me info on the tainted Halloween candy scare. First there was the pet food problem, and now this. Here's an article on the situation. I'm just shaking my head over it all.

What did I say in a previous post? Stupid Homo Sapiens and their chemicals.

The family and I went to see Wall-E tonight, and while it was cute, it was also pretty frightening to contemplate. An Earth covered with garbage, while up in space, there's a spaceship like a luxury liner filled with fat, bloated humans floating around on hoverchairs with robots waiting on them hand and foot. Whoever wrote that did an amazing job of portraying a post-apocalyptic Earth while also telling a tale of romance, action/suspense, and redemption all at the same time. But when it was over, I wanted to go hit the treadmill and re-plant the garden even though it's late October. Which, I'm sure, was exactly the point.

Tonight the Huz and I took out three bins of recycling, and a large rolling garbage bin that was less than half-full. The neighbors had no recycling bin at all, their garbage bin was overflowing with trimmings from their trees and shrubs, and they also had several large black plastic bags full of more trimmings--all spilling out onto the street. I'm not even sure why anyone would put bags full of organic matter into the landfill in the first place. In the days before fossil fuels and global warming, people used to heat their houses with wood. What the heck happened that now we're stuffing perfectly good wood into bags and cramming it into the landfill where it can't even biodegrade?

I think I'm going to make some cookies and homemade candy for my kids, and check over the candy they do get Trick-or-Treating as carefully as I can, and...hope for the best. But I'm getting very tired of being disappointed in my fellow humans.