{"id":508320,"date":"2010-04-02T18:26:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-02-easter-and-plastic-eggs\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:26:26","slug":"easter-and-plastic-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/508320","title":{"rendered":"Easter and plastic eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Jonathan Hiskes <\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s always a place for some old-fashioned hating on plastics, especially if there&rsquo;s a timely hook:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the traditional Easter egg is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warwickshire.gov.uk\/web\/corporate\/pages.nsf\/Links\/EA816EE5D35EB8258025714700320280\/$file\/History+of+the+Easter+Egg.pdf\" >a symbol<\/a> of resurrection, or a more paganesque generalized celebration of fertility, than what does a plastic Easter egg signify?&rdquo; Andrew Leonard asks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/technology\/how_the_world_works\/2010\/04\/02\/plastic_easter_eggs\/index.html\">at Salon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He learns that Easter, historically a high-sales season for chicken-laid eggs, no longer brings a boom for the egg industry. Because the plastic variety is winning out:<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, millions of children will, knowingly or unknowingly, reenact ancient rituals honoring the mystery of life by hunting for <strong>plastic eggs that symbolize the exact opposite of fertility and birth<\/strong>. Instead of resurrection, <strong>plastic eggs are all about everlasting nonbiodegradable un-death,&nbsp; inauthenticity and cheap disposability<\/strong>, not to mention global economic trends eating away at the livelihood of blue-collar American workers.<\/p>\n<p>Take that, plastics industry. If you&rsquo;re into eggs of the non-plastic variety, April McGreger has an <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2009-03-26-springtime-eggs-puddings\/\">ode<\/a> to pastured farm eggs from last March, with recipes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-02-why-climate-realists-and-skeptics-talk-past-each-other\/\">Why climate realists and skeptics talk past each other<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-02-can-we-get-some-attention-for-our-issues-now\/\">Can we get some attention for our issues now?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-02-al-gore-wants-earth-day-volunteer-videos\/\">Al Gore wants Earth Day volunteer videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ceb11c332d7bb8cb103d3bb31f6b0f2f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ceb11c332d7bb8cb103d3bb31f6b0f2f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jonathan Hiskes There&rsquo;s always a place for some old-fashioned hating on plastics, especially if there&rsquo;s a timely hook: &ldquo;If the traditional Easter egg is a symbol of resurrection, or a more paganesque generalized celebration of fertility, than what does a plastic Easter egg signify?&rdquo; Andrew Leonard asks at Salon. He learns that Easter, historically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}