I developed and introduced D-A-S in 1985. And I'm not as astute as a socially irresponsible, overzealous, CA Asst. DA who cares more about promoting his or her performance to his or her superiors. There is such a thing as employing discretion and human consideration for constituents, many of whom are small business owners struggling to put food on the table.

GWWC is asking for 10% [a portion] of your personal income. It doesn’t impact your business costs. You can sign up to do recurring donations through Givewell in under 5 minutes. 10% is small enough that you won’t even notice it’s gone, probably. I don’t! If 10 is too much, why not 5%?

So what is the real blocker here, apart from that you don’t want to?

Edit: I received some feedback that this is too harsh. I’m sorry, Mr. Greenhut, it’s not appropriate of me to go to so far into questioning your financial situation. I struck through some portions that are not fair/unanbiguously true.

It is pretty clear from the discussion and your previous comments and sources I can find online that you did previously package the product with the claim “99% Bio-Degradable”. Can you explain exactly what that means?

never more than $10. We only ship to the lower 48 states.

So do you not know whether your own product was biodegradable? How much research did you do into this before you applied that marketing to your product?

The FTC guidelines I posted above originally came out in 1992. Lots of dog bag makers have been taken to task over this issue in the past. You definitely could have known. Whatever the merits to your grievances against that particular DA, you probably shouldn’t have used that marketing term in the first place, no? In a sense, you cost yourself by making claims that you could not support.

I’m drilling into this slightly because if you said “We were wrong to use that term, technically the bag can biodegrade but we didn’t think fully through what most people think that means in practice, so we removed the claim after the DA told us to.” That would make a lot of sense and be basically fine by me. But that would require acknowledging that you made a mistake, which you seem to be psychologically incapable of doing. This is a very troubling (but common) trait for a business leader!

Not according to this: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/california-money-grab-causing-layoffs-states-petpro-152260215.html

Mind sharing the letter, promotional materials, and product?

biodegradability was never claimed

never claimed it was biodegradable.

done: temporary 3rd product. Please excuse the look.

At the moment I am focusing on juggling everything so employees can go to the bank to cash their checks. Please respect that there is a time and place for everything.

It is 2 servings. Being corrected

I never consciously would do anything deceptive - I do not have to.

I can not answer that accurately- what I can say is that I dropped the claim, I would have dropped it years ago if I had any idea that California had enacted a new law that eluded my daily research, that an ridiculously overzealous Assistant DA would glom on to to promote her career instead of acting responsibly. I am most proud that my Dispoz-A-Scoop saves lives as I developed it in the first place to isolate peoples hands who want to pick up poop, from contact with bacteria -especially those with compromised such as those who have a auto-immunity deficiency (cancer patients), and pregnant women.

Your proof looks sufficient to me, but I'm not a moderator. Please use this link to tell them about your proof:

https://askmeanythi.ng/

Thanks!

Here's the proof he provided for the moderators:

https://bartsbakery.com/products/triple-belgian-chocolate-chip-cookies?_pos=1&_sid=6b6067c49&_ss=r

That's a good price for a pack of entrepreneurs. How much is the shipping on 12 Barts?

I will correct on Monday. I'd do it now except revising Amazon confuses me and the person who does this will be at the office Monday 8AM. Thx B

How's this? I set myself up as a product on bartsbakery.com (3rd product) Please advise so I can post the product photo again, thx

Understood, thanks. Will you correct your Amazon store page, which suggests that a single package contains 105 calories? I notice several reviewers have been confused by this.

I’d like to trust you on that, but you understand that I can’t know that unless you go into some detail about specifically what conditions under which the bags biodegrade, and what you think happens to your poop bags after people throw them away.

My guess is that if people throw the bags away in the trash (as they must, since dog poop isn’t compostable), the bags will sit in a landfill for substantially longer than a year. Is that correct or incorrect?

it's 105 calories per serving. adjusting it upward to I believe 124 calories in our next package printing

my marketing has never been nor ever will be deceptive. Ever.

He is in Hawaii last I heard. Living on Social Security. A good human, not a good businessman.

I have good intuition; can spot opportunity, develop great niche products to fulfill a perceived need that I feel I can handle. It's been a long road, many great experiences. What we are experiencing is a temporary setback. We have love and I have no regrets.

I don’t know what to tell you. When evaluating whether I should buy or crowdfund your projects, I have to take into account the track record of your marketing of previous products. Do you believe your marketing was deceptive or not?