Another blindfolding, attention altering report about bottled water in the TV. I feel like it is very misleading. First of all, drinkable water doesn't mean drinking water. What doesn't make you sick, does not necessarily make you healthy. I traveled around Europe and lived in a couple of countries in a lot of cities and can tell you, that it is rare that unaltered tap-water is a nourishing, satisfying, gratifying liquid. Bottled water is a solution to drink more, to drink slightly better quality, with less chemicals. Maybe not the best, but not the worst either.
Rather drink bottled water, than go to the doctor/pharmacy every month !
Yes we understand the pollution, caused by the production, transportation and storage and the actual left over empty bottle. It is so minuscule compared to all other pollutions. This is what most people don’t understand. They preach about veganism and paleo and sustainable lifestyle and bla bla bla.
In a general supermarket, real fresh food departments, like fruits and vegetables and real meat and fish what doesn’t include charcuterie or canned crap and the bottled water department all together, doesn’t even take up 5% of the total surface of the whole shop. We can add a quality olive oil / coconut oil shelf, some fermented foods and we still stay very much under 5% !
The question is, why do not we talk about the rest of the stuff ? Why always nutrition and hydration ? Less then 5% is food in the shops !!! The rest is crap. All the cereals, fake chocolate and crappy alcohol, the fizzy drinks and all highly processed food. I don’t say I don’t like to eat a quality sausage. But I do it once in every three months. Cheese ? When I drive near a mountain goat farm 3 times a year, I might buy a roll of fresh Tome de Montagne. My every day food is fresh fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds, with some meat once or twice a week, some eggs, loads of quality olive oil, pink salt, some fish and only real food. I can go on olive oil, lettuce and apples and evening roasted potatoes for a decade if needed.
What about the rest ? What about the 95% ? What about the chemically infused cheap Chinese clothing and non-reusable pampers, what about the full length of toilet paper, tissue and kitchen towel department. One choice is not enough ? The alcohol department is bigger than the meat isle. And the cancer causing microwave ovens with teflon saucepans, fake Chinese porcelain and the obesity causing TV, video and hifi department ? What about the chemicals used to clean I don’t even know what, cause I never even went there. White vinegar, washing nuts, bicarbonate of soda and natural marseille soap flakes do all. Bleach can clean the toilette and off you go. What about all the shower gels, shampoos, sprays and deodorants, bad quality toothpastes and 200kinds of toothbrushes, body lotions, hand, arm, face, calf creams and an enormous make-up department. What about all the packaging and electricity used for the processed, frigged and frozen food isles. What about the inner restaurants, serving you very low quality foods, made in an oven never properly cleaned. Imagine that in theory, coffee is good for you. Coffee has a ton of positive benefits. Green tea has a ton of positive benefits. So in 300 products, there is very often only 1 or maximum 2 what would be considered acceptable. What about the processed base food isles like sugar, flour, milk, all milk products. What about the colorful newspaper-stand what sells just distracting, sheep creating misleading information. I can still keep on going, listing all the things in all general high end supermarkets, what are not food or bottled water related. It is such a small industry. If people would be fitter and would have their own backpacks all the time, we could use our own packs and own rolling sacs, so there would be no need for any plastic packaging, trollies and baskets, outside of the recycled paper for some wet fresh foods.
Have a look again at a supermarket’s floor. Real food like fruit and vegetable isle, with the non-processed butcher type of meat isle and the bottled water isle takes less than 5% of total surface area ! Stop the BS, look for solutions and instead of paying 10s of thousands for these kind of TV reports, just reduce traffic, buy bicycles, get healthy, close crappy restaurants and try to start people think differently.
I would love to see people’s faces, when they entered the giant Carefour shop, there was only a real butcher, fruit and vegetable isle and maybe bottled water, or instead an isle what would be selling water filter.
If you've ever worked in sales or marketing, the big business is not in selling. It is in (selling + 1) together. When you buy a piece of meat, you can see that there is some bacon near and spices on the top of that counter, you buy it. When you go for your bottled water, you take a coke and an orange juice too. When you go for your dark chocolate, you buy a small sachet of Haribo. You go over the textile isle to arrive to your food part and you buy a pair of socks, cause you are tired, lazy, have no energy to check on youtube on how to patch up a pair of socks.
In an ideal world, there would be no bottled water of course, but on every corner we would be able to find fresh water springs and fountains like in the ancient Rome and still in current medieval villages. In big cities, reverse osmosis filters would be installed as basis with unlimited follow up water filters. Even gravity filters are good choice, cause a very simple low quality brita, already makes your water so much better. A Berkey water filter has around 5 to 10 years of use time, with some cleaning here and there. A giant charcoal and fluoride filter. Not that cheap, but on the long term it comes back in 2 years time. Return on investment. You pay, you’ll get healthy later on. You make the wrong choice, you pay big time in 10 years time.
We talked about just the supermarket here. But imagine if we've looked at a giant shopping center, shopping mall !!! What would be the surface percentage of the meat/fish, fruits/vegetables and bottled water isle compared the whole "sewer system" ? Like 0.5 % ? Even if we checked the whole picture with factories, trucks, camions and other transportation and the pollution of those, in reality, the real meat and fruit and veggie and bottled water industry is just a small percentage.