Ideal Bite

Thanks for the chuckle this morning. The topic was clever and certainly attention-grabbing. On the bigger issue of paper savings - I'd challenge readers to ask at their favorite bookstore and their public library and find out how many magazines and books are being thrown away(NOT recycled). You'll be shocked (expecially at the ibrary) Buy gently used or even new books you or your kids want to keep or will pass on to multiple other readers. As a former teacher and librarian I completely agree there's value in holding and experiencing a great read. But, for the quick articles, recipes, celebrity scoop, or *gasps* porn that we might look at a few times then get rid of - save the paper, production, transport, and distrobution energy and get them online.

Porn is bad stuff it hurts women, children and men but it is out there. It is better not to kill trees making it.It is better if it is not displayed at the news stand. And you can control what your children, spouse and co-workers use their computers for. Some times the tips deal with disagreeable subjects but going green is all about managing or eliminating disagreeable things.

I think people are taking things out of context. It was a sensationalist headline but they aren't exactly advocating the use of online porn. Read the entire tip instead of the catchy intro before you judge. Aside from the first paragraph, this a great tip that can save you money. I personally, wouldn't read a book online. I spend a minimum of 10 hours a day online just for work purposes. I don't want my leisure time taken up by it as well. However as mentioned, short articles like news, recipes, gossip and the articles in magazines are great for the screen. It keeps waste out of landfills. If they had replaced porn with "Redbook and Cosmopolitan" there would not be any controversy in this tip. With people getting dozens of emails per day, they have to be a little creative to get you to look at things. I may not agree with every tip on this list but the distribution method and wording has little to do with that.

They are advocating porn, they even told readers the specific name of a porn site that raises money for trees,of course there were some ***in the text. And as this tip being a "tongue in cheek" thing...bad excuse. And I don't think that most people talk about their use of porn that I would forward this tip to anyone. Here's how I feel about this tip before reading other readers comments: A couple years ago I signed up for a daily green living tip via email through Ideal Bite. You may have heard of it before. The tips are written by two women, one from New York and the other from Montana. The Ideal Bite’s slogan is ‘a sassier shade of green’… Very cute and catchy I might say. But…when a reader is on the ’sign up for a tip’ page they are told they will receive short, sassy green living tips delivered to their inbox each day. Readers can also view a sample tip. The title of the sample tip available to readers is ‘Love your bottled water but feel a little naughty each time you toss the plastic in the recycle bin?’ The rest of the tip is short, sweet and a little sassy…something I would sign up for. So where is the problem? All of the tips have some sort of fun in them. Most of the fun is just in the friendly way it is written and the ‘personally speaking’ area lightens up the email, making the reader feel like the writers are speaking directly to them. The problem is that very often the writers allude to sexual conduct, being drunk, and most recently *porn.* The most recent daily green living tip sent out on August 17, 2007 was a tip to get magazines, movies and music online in order to reduce paper, packaging, etc. Although I don’t want to take too much credit for what Ideal Bite wrote on August 18th but I must say it felt like a personal attack. Just one day prior I emailed Ideal Bite explaining that I had been considering unsubscribing since they wrote a comment alluding to conduct that shouldn’t be visualized through reading a green living tip but that I had decided to go ahead and keep reading them since they are fun but that they should maybe worn about adult content in the subject of the email. When I opened my inbox the next day and saw Ideal Bite’s email with the subject Warning: Adult Content I thought it might be a reply to the message I had sent them. I opened it and there in huge letters was the title of the tip that I referred to earlier. Maybe they didn’t get my email but this tip came at poor timing…it probably would have been poor timing anytime. I have one question to ask these women, Where is your class? You’re telling me that you are going to represent yourself as a fun, sassy newsletter and then resort to your August 17th tip? That’s not sassy, that’s scandalous. There are so many categories of magazine publications, music, and movies that would fit into this tip and Ideal Bite chose *porn* to head up their green mission. Absolutely appalling. And, did these writers ever think about how serious *porn* can be and the trouble it causes for some people. Maybe a certain percentage of your readers are recovering addicts or maybe some readers are 38 with teenagers who look over their shoulder when they open emails. But the writers don’t seem to be concerned with who their readers are, they have their fab eco-fashion to think about. I’m sure they really have no concern for their reader because my feedback to them was ignored and I had affiliate ads for them. I was sending them more readers and they didn’t care! In the end, Ideal Bite has really turned out to be ruthless advertising for organic fashion. FYI: I have unsubscribed form your daily tip and I am saddened that Ideal Bite is defending themselves against this tip instead of humbling accepting they screwed up. I am also saddened that some of the readers feel that doing something for the environment (i.e. distributing porn via online) is some how better for the world. What will save the world is fighting to get this kind of stuff out of our culture, not distributed differently.

"It's not really about porn. Well, then again, porn can be sorta fun, so maybe you should actually check some out before passing judgment. - Ideal Bite" and this...? What happened to you guys?

Are you guys aware that when people sign up for this tip they are not required to enter a birthdate. Your readers could very well be under the age of 18 and this is what you send out. Watch Out! This kind of thing could very well be seen as illegal, especially since you mention porn sites. I would like to see a paler shade of sassy green from you guys.

I loved the tip...I saw it in my inbox and got so excited for a tip of a racier nature! Even though it wasn't even about porn necessarily -it was still good! I love the Tunes for Trees! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK IDEAL BITE!

gosh .. all i was trying to say is ... i love reading real books and relaxing , sometimes in bed ... especially after a long day of working. by the end of the day i do not want to have to read my book on the computor ...... i cherish all my books and they would never be found in some landfill .. maybe i should only buy books printed on recycled paper .

After reading all the callous comments seemingly from Ideal Bite, I'm going to go ahead and unsubscribe. You have no idea how damaging porn is to people, nor how destructive you are by taking this lightly. Therefore I don't want to listen to anything else you say. I would highly recommend that all others who take offence also unsubscribe. With less numbers, they'll have much less value. They can always get rich with the pornography producers.

thanks for the tip. i do have a few friends that can benefit from the it. and as i'm not the type to preach i'll make this short. There is a lot of bad porn out there (degrading to women/men etc) and there is some pretty decent porn (more focused on relationships and caring). goodvibes.com is a adult site that is for women and managed by women. if you don't like porn or anything with racy content i understand but don't pass judgements as this may apply to someone you know. keep the bites coming!!!