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by Designer4theking...loves her kitties on August 8th, 2009
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by anguilla on August 8th, 2009
I suppose you could look at it like growing food crops. We grow them and cut them down and use them and throw away the leftovers.
by Merriment on August 9th, 2009
Now that they chip them to use in public parks as mulch, I'm pretty much okay with the practice.
Although, I prefer a living tree over a cut one.
by IntotheForge on August 8th, 2009
My father owns a couple of hundred acres of pine forest, and we're proud of it. A well-kept slash pine forest provides a rapidly regrowing habitat for local wildlife, a very good reason to come to local growers instead of cutting down even more virgin forest, and is a very good long term investment, as the need for wood and paper isn't going to slow down any time soon. I have no possible idea what you're talking about when you speak of burning down or throwing away slash trees - the lumber industry strives to make use of every inch and ounce of tree harvested.
The christmas tree growers try to do the same thing, offering programs to recycle the trees and grow them where people would be hard pressed to waste them. This is an end user problem.
by john pennington on August 8th, 2009
Is there really a difference between christmas trees and cows for hamburgers or steaks?
Same principle.
by mweaver on August 8th, 2009
No. What bothers me is the cacti. We simply ignore cacti at Christmas like they aren't good enough. I mean, just cause cacti have a bum rap doesn't been they don't have feelings too!
by josie III on August 8th, 2009
No. They replant them and start all over. Perfect example of renewing a resource.
by Talimze on August 8th, 2009
No.
by Fiddle Playing Creole Bastard on August 8th, 2009
I'd prefer they cut them down then ones in the wild that are much more likely to serve as a habitat for something.
by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on August 9th, 2009
No. People grow turkeys all year just to have them slaughtered for Christmas ( a one day pleasure, compared to the weeks you can enjoy the tree.) We don't need turkey, we could just have hamburger instead and it would be just as nutritious, especially if it was lean hamburger.
Almost everything that humans do consumes something, eating, travelling, even sleeping we use up fabric and furniture. All of nature consists of the consumers and the consumed.
by FaceNthaBackground on August 9th, 2009
Nope. They constantly replant them.
by -Icy- on August 9th, 2009
no tree farmers need to make a living as well. and they constantly plant and keep them going. i myself only use artificial trees because i like to put mine up early.
by Princess Garnet on August 8th, 2009
I never though of it that way... but now that I think of it... it is really sad isn't it :( well its good I only get fake trees :) +4
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Well, Food we utilize for nourishment for our bodies. I would rather have a plastic tree for Christmas.or one with a bulb on the end to plant. I really don't feel the same about food crops, we are fed through the crops the foods get utilized into us and then goes back into the ground again through sewage plants. I love nature and the trees are one of my favorite. Thanks for your answer.
by Designer4theking...loves her kitties on August 8th, 2009
I really agree with you, but I read some semi-touching comments on the web pages of people who live off the growing of these trees and I didn't want to appear to be a jerk towards them.
by anguilla on August 9th, 2009