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I teach engineering ethics, so I should be expected to have a more nuanced take on this, but this is where I am, as regards organic animal cookies: it just seems wrong.
Really, don't you think? I suppose vegetarian animal cookies would be weirder. And organic? Big deal. It's not necessarily a contradiction. But every time I see the box, it confuses me.
Maybe it's directional, the way you come at it. By which I mean this: it isn't so much that it's wrong, as much as it simply doesn't seem right. What will the kids think?
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You know how Christina Ricci wanted to know, in Addams Family Values, if the girl scout cookies were made with real Girl Scouts?
Are organic animal cookies made with real animal organs?
Posted by: derek | February 4, 2007 6:47 PM
Perhaps you should collect more apparent paradoxes of food labeling. I personally have always been troubled by - Organic American Cheese. On multiple levels (including, in concert with first comment, the possibility of it being made of Americans) - is it possible to have an organic cheese food?
Posted by: lwn | February 6, 2007 8:57 AM
Most cookies are vegetarian.
Posted by: Ben | February 6, 2007 9:26 AM