Posted on 01/25/2018 10:33:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw.
Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.
This isn't just Calderon's crusade. The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics. And up in Seattle, food service businesses won't be allowed to offer plastic straws or utensils as of July.
The Los Angeles Times has gotten behind the movement, endorsing straws-on-request policies in an editorial that also warned that "repetitive sucking may cause or exacerbate wrinkles on the lips or around the mouth." Celebrity astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson (always up for a little chiding) and Entourage star Adrian Grenier have appeared in videos where an octopus slaps them in the face for using a plastic straw.
The actual number of straws being used is unclear. Calderon, along with news outlets writing about this issue—from CNN to the San Francisco Chronicle—unfailingly state that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day, many of them ending up in waterways and oceans. The 500 million figure is often attributed to the National Park Service; it in turn got it from the recycling company Eco-Cycle.
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There’s no freedom in CA anymore. Its become a playground for the Rats and a hellhole for anyone with common sense.
Seems reasonable.
/Industrial Strength Sarc
When straws are outlawed, only outlaws will have straws!!
They should know...................
Is this considered a straw argument?
I don’t understand. Wouldn’t we just take them out back and shoot them?
“We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans,”
And WE need to create awareness around your pea brain ideas.
California is killing the Plastic Straw Industry. I wonder how many jobs this will cost them?
Excuse me, I’m from the Straw Police. Can you tell me whether or not you requested that straw with your drink? What is your intended use of that straw? How will you be disposing of said straw when you have finished sucking on it?
Unbelievable. It’s finally obvious that there’s no limit on just how crazy and destructive Californication’s democrappic dictatorial ruling clique can get.
So now the snotty elite who get pissed at ever server can claim they were offered a straw.
The Government will be using the straws to suck people’s brains out instead
Do they still sell six packs with the plastic carrier ?
I hope this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
If I still lived in an area of outlawed straws, I would always ask for extras.
“Under Calderon’s law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.”
But criminals in CA illegally get sanctuary and all the benefits and freebies they can handle.
These people get stupider and more insane by the day (or hour).
This worker’s paradise is criminalizing everything that doesn’t meet the party’s directives and objectives.
Fascism, ecocommie style.
Apparently California lawmakers have enough time on their hands to be grasping at straws...
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