(Via Hot Air Headlines) It is not that the Easter Eggs are wooden.
In a continued effort to make the Easter Egg Roll more environmentally friendly, all eggs have again been crafted in the United States from Forest Stewardship Council-certified hardwood.
Note the ‘again’: they were wooden last year, too (in 2009 they were apparently still using real eggs). And giving the kids a wooden commemorative egg stretches back to the previous administration and probably longer. It looks like what happened is that somebody decided to just expand the wooden egg thing to its logical conclusion; green silliness aside, there is an argument that this is a reasonable way to minimize waste and cleanup. In other words, while the National Egg Board may take it on the chin, the fact that the White House lawn will be less organically messy next month doesn’t really bother me. Continue reading #rsrh The *wrong* White House Easter Egg Outrage.