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December 17, 2009

Environmentalists Target Soft Toilet Paper

"They'll take my Ultra Soft Charmin only when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-smelling hands."

 

Highly doubtful it will come to that. Please, sit.

 

We're talking about toilet paper. Charlton Heston's famous vow was of guns.

 

The issue over tissue in the bathroom — the really super-soft stuff — is more like the fight about the big SUVs loved by many Americans.

 

Anti-green, according to environmentalists. Politically incorrect. Why should Americans use luxurious toilet paper made from old-growth trees when much of the world gets by with a far more basic and often recycled product?

 

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