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Article: Tree sellers let the fir fly; Real or fake? 'Peace on Earth' doesn't describe plant purveyors
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2006
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There's not much holiday cheer these days between Christmas tree
growers and the makers of artificial trees.
Take the Web site of the National Christmas Tree Association, for
example. It has a computer game called "Attack of the Mutant
Artificial Trees," in which players can pelt fake evergreens with
snowballs while being careful to avoid the elves.
"The artificial trees have mutated and are sucking the spirit out
of Christmas," the game says.
The game, although lighthearted, is hardly in the Christmas
spirit, say artificial tree manufacturers.
And the fact that some people depict artificial trees as unsafe
doesn't pass the "sniff test," says Thomas Gorman, president and CEO
of Balsam Hill ...