Yello by Hunter Schwarz

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How plastic straws became a culture wars battle

How plastic straws became a culture wars battle

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Hunter Schwarz
Jul 23, 2019
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The right has a new beverage-based symbol of choice to represent government overreach. Move over, Big Gulp, you’ve been replaced by the plastic straw. Here’s how it became the latest front in the culture wars.

Seattle became the first U.S. city to ban plastic straws last year, and since then, several other states, cities, and companies have done so or ar…

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