Amuse-bouche: potty talk

I found this Salon article interesting in its own right, but it also reminded me of the importance of having widely available public information about corporations. That’s because, in the story, the writer says, “Leading manufacturers, like Georgia Pacific and Kimberly Clark, increasingly use up to 100 percent recycled fiber from the United States.” Only in the fifth page of the comments did a reader correct the writer: As I have mentioned in this blog, Kimberly-Clark is actually under fire for clear-cutting virgin forests to make its Kleenex and paper towels. If info on such corporate misdeeds were more freely available, perhaps the writer would have taken a different tone.