Wednesday, December 10, 2008
News Boiling crabs to save the swamps from Home Depot
Posted by Joeff Davis @joeffly on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:21 PM
Last Thursday about 20 activists led by the group “Save Our Cypress Coalition” gathered outside of the corporate headquarters of Home Depot on Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta to boil crabs to protest Home Depot's use of cypress tress in mulch that they produce. They claim that irreplaceable cypress forests in the southeast are being clear-cut to produce and sell garden mulch by Home Depot. “Clear cutting cypress forests to make mulch is like shredding the constitution to make post it notes,” said Dan Favre, campaign organizer for the Gulf Restoration Network.
The activists said that the crabs they brought to boil at the demonstration represented the Gulf environment that they were trying to protect. Several dozen live crabs were boiled to death and eaten to protest against the destruction of the crabs environment.
According to the demonstrators some of the cypress tress that Home Depot uses in their mulch take a hundred years to grow and could live for over 1000 years if they were not cut down and sold for garden mulch. The Coalition recommends Home Depot use other types of wood such as pine bark because it’s a byproduct of the lumber industry and requires no further environmental destruction to produce or pine straw because its renewable.
More boiling crabs to save the swamps photos at our Sideshow blog.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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