Politically incorrect Christmas adverts

'On a positive note, online shopping reduces traffic along with its pollution.'

Sorry Jenny but I disagree with you on that, after all whilst you and I may not go down to the shops in our cars the vans are now trundling up and down our roads instead!

I don’t mind you disagreeing Redface, but research refutes your beliefs.

This is an extract from a very comprehensive 68 page report on E-commerce and its growing partner M-commerce (from mobile devices).if you fancy a long technical read, find 

https://www.racfoundation.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/11/The_Implications_of_Internet_Shopping_Growth_on_the_Van_Fleet_and_Traffic_Activity_Braithwaite_May_17.pdf Thanks 

“• Perhaps surprisingly, online e-commerce has probably contributed to a modest reduction in overall traffic; parcel delivery vans contribution to congestion is substantially exaggerated.”

You may be relieved to learn that I was researching something quite unrelated when I found the statement.

I suppose that one van carrying many parcels has to be compared to the environmental benefits of bus travel.

 

The Iceland message, which was banned for being political was in the "say no" to Palm Oil camp. It's possible to do this by reading ingredient lists on products. Palm Oil seems to have crept into so many things, we managed without it previously but it's being foisted on us.

LINK to further Iceland info. concerning the environment.

Palm oil is not only environmentally destructive but working practices on the plantations are very dubious too.  Amnesty International have long been campaigning that even 'sustainable palm oil' is anything but and uses cheap and 'slave' labour!  Avoid it if you can, and if enough of us do, then the manufacturers may just get the idea that we're no longer willing to accept it as a cheaper alternative  to other oils and fats.

There are some big-brand names which use palm oil - so you can avoid it by not buying Magnum ice-cream, Colgate toothpaste, Dove cosmetics, Knorr soup, KitKat, Pantene shampoo, Ariel, and Pot Noodle.  It's in a lot of other products too - check on the ingredients list if you want to avoid it.

 

I guess it depends on what you are thinking about when you consider internet shopping.

For the likes of amazon etc., where delivery vans run optimised routes from main distribution centres, this must reduce average cost per mile of items delivered and reduce individual car journeys.

However, for the likes of Tesco for example, where routings are not so optimised, as they are dictated by the customer, booking for a certain time slot, I imaging this could be less efficient running a big van all over the place, that going to the shop yourself?!

 

I still cannot fathom why the ad was banned. I also fail to see what on earth it has to do with Christmas. Please someone enlighten me.

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Sad, certainly but even more, sinister in that the motive and the faceless behind the banning seek to hide the truth. Fact is, like the tobacco & petroleum industries, they are powerful enough to force censorship and heap fake news on the masses to protect their own interests.

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The Say No to Palm Oil ad ban is a very suspicious form of political manoeuvring and a great change from the usual overtly commercial and sickly Christmas selling spree. However if you read the previous link to Iceland's environment policy they are attempting to eradicate palm oil from their products and have a time frame for this. I don't use Iceland,  there is no shop near me, but they are using a green sticker on products that are palm oil free. I've noticed in some of our locally made pies that palm oil has crept in to the pastry, when did we ever need palm oil for good pastry?