Hey, Pure Life water: I can dive into pools of high fructose corn syrup if I want to
I regret that I was unable to locate a video clip of the Nestle Pure Life bottled water commercial that’s been playing on TV lately. It’s pretty good. The narrator jokingly goes over the different ways we play with water during the summer, and then somehow uses that to justify drinking their bottled water. They say things like, “you wouldn’t dive into a pool of high fructose corn syrup.” Well, maybe I would, Nestle! Maybe that’s my favorite activity: draining my outdoor pool, filling it with bottle after bottle of corn syrup, and then diving on in. And what of it?
I really like the idea of running a different kind of liquid through your sprinklers, which they also suggest. I would use beer, clearly. Sure it would be a waste of beer, but what a delicious waste indeed.
I didn’t care much for the commercial. In fact, the Nestle Pure Life bottled water commercial makes me mad as hell because they erroneously suggest that recycling is a manageable solution to the waste the industry creates, which is simply not true. There is no environmentally responsible solution to bottled water – just say no, and lets boycott all things Nestle until they stop bottling and selling our water.
I agree about the waste that bottled water generates. I haven’t had a bottle of water in years…I got a Brita recently, but before that I just drank from the tap. My one vice when it comes to plastic bottles is 2 liter bottles of soda, and I am working on breaking that habit by making pitchers of Kool Aid and iced tea instead. Thank you for your thoughts!