Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Save the Earth Gum

The following image depicts the display packaging material for a product called Save the Earth Gum, presumably for sale nationwide.

Normally the four sections are wrapped around to form a box structure with eight holes on top for containers with 55 gum pieces each.




The eight holes and corresponding gum containers are explained with the statement that "This tray plants 8 fruit trees back into the Earth."

It's unclear how that happens, however, funding fruit trees by selling chewing gum allegedly heals the planet from loss of rainforest due to global warming and the extraction of plant and animal species.

Although the logic is stretchy (chewing gum to fruit trees to global warming), more interesting is the panel on the bottom of the display package.




It's assumed that after all eight containers of gum are sold, someone (?) will retrieve the customarily-discarded packaging material from the waste bin, turn it over and discover the "Good Samaritan Card." Following the instructions, someone (?) will give the guy on the corner a dollar or help a stranded traveler, mark the card and give it to someone else (?).

I suggest there are serious flaws in the chewing gum-global warming-good samaritan logic.

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