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February 14, 2007
Flowers Meet Stiff Resistance on Valentine's Day
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| Who would have thought that Valentine's Day might be
a serious contributor to the well established fact of global warming. Apparently
the British version of Wal-Mart, Tesco, has come to that conclusion. Tesco has decided to limit the importation of cut flowers in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint. The flowers are imported from Africa and the concern was due to pollution produced by the plane trips required to fly the petals to the U. K. An additional setback occurred when millions of dollars worth of imported African flowers were turned back by Germany due to packaging that didn't meet EU environmental standards. The African flower industry complained that since the EU produces 20 times the per capita pollution of Africa the flowers should not be an issue. Further enflaming the issue was news that the U. K. would begin a pilot program selling Viagra over the counter on Valentine's Day. The additional heat generated by the easily available amour amplifiers has the potential to raise the average temperature of the earth close to 0.00024 degrees (Celsius no less). British bedrooms are expected to be much hotter than the average temperature. Al Gore was unavailable for comment at the time of this post. On this side of the pond some American men were applauding the forward thinking socialist tendencies of the EU nations. One blog reader, Davisimo, was quoted as saying "If you can stop global warming by replacing bouquets of roses with bottles of Viagra on Valentine's Day who am I to stand in the way?" |
Posted by Lon at February 14, 2007 12:00 AM