Matt and “The Monster”- Rock Art Brewery vs. Monster Energy Drink

Matt and “The Monster”- Rock Art Brewery vs. Monster Energy Drink (YouTube link)

This is totally ludicrous! There will be NO MONSTER ENERGY DRINK purchased in this house ever after pulling a stunt like this on Rock Art Brewery!

Must watch video!

Here’s what E. Magnuson said on his Blogcritics article entitled One More Monster Takes a Swipe at the Rest of Us:

Monster Energy Drinks describes itself as “A Lifestyle in a Can.” Yeah, well, the same can be said of SPAM or Sterno or Fancy Feast cat food. Who gives a rip, right? That is, until Monster went after a tiny, utterly delicious micro-brewery in Vermont named Rock Art Brewery. When I lived in Vermont a handful of years back, growlers (those adorable jug-band-ready half-gallon containers) of Rock Art’s Ridge Runner were my favorite beer. Rock Art exemplifies my idea of a cool American small business – people who live what they love and work damn hard at making it the best they can.

You got that right!

I don’t even drink beer, but this is just plain wrong!

Coal Industry Brewing Up Boycott Against Tennessee

Coal Industry Brewing Up Boycott Against Tennessee

Rob Perks on his blog at Switchboard, from NRDC reports,

The Associated Press is reporting on an issue I blogged last week — the boycott of Tennessee by coal companies, sparked by what the industry says is that state’s “hostility” toward mountaintop removal coal mining.

As the AP story explains, “angry” Appalachian coal miners are refusing to vacation in Tennessee because they’re upset that Republican Senator Lamar Alexander (TN) is co-sponsoring a bill — The Appalachia Restoration Act (S. 696) — that would effectively end mountaintop removal. This is the controversial mining that involves converting America’s oldest mountains into molehills — clearcutting forests, destroying valley streams and polluting drinking water in the process.

Sen. Alexander’s response, according to AP, is that Appalachia’s mountaintops should be preserved, not destroyed.

“Every year, millions of tourists come to Tennessee and spend millions of dollars to see our scenic mountaintops, not to see mountains whose tops have been blown off and dumped into streams.”

Much more in the article including a link to let Sen. Alexander know you appreciate his strong stance against Mountain Top Removal. I’ve let him know I appreciate it very much!

I wish Kentucky and Virginia would show as much guts instead of supporting coal against all common sense.

Sure it might help wean us off foreign oil, but blowing the tops off of mountains! Destroying mountains that have been on this planet longer than the Himalayas in a one shot deal that hurts the people who live there and their property, hurts air, water and animal habitats. I can not believe the propaganda going on!

I am not a big ‘global warming’ fan, but destroying mountains and polluting streams, headwaters, wildlife habitats, people’s property and homes … just not worth it.

Please see iLoveMountains.org for details. Oh, and it’s not ANTI-Patriotic to want to stop Mountain Top Removal!! Are they nutz or what?!