Why the Sudden Frenzy Against Plastic Straws? | Intellectual Takeout"If you took a nice summer vacation, you might have missed the latest frenzy in American political culture: the huge movement to ban plastic straws.
It’s real. Several cities in California have passed “straw-on-request” laws.
Companies such as Starbucks have promised to eliminate them in two years, though one wonders how paper is going to fare when sucking up a hot latte.
Signature petitions are alive all over the county.
I’ve even noticed that the wait staff at restaurants is reluctant even to give them out, as if giving you a convenient, clean, and effective way to drink your water is treading on dangerous territory.
My first theory was that this is the American prohibitionist culture run amok..."
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