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| No | 47% | 279 votes | Total: 597 votes | |
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by Nadia Ghanny
Whether a Christmas tree is real or not should not be the focus. Christmas trees real or artificial looks just as good when it's decorated with the beautiful ornaments and light...read more
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by Ray Marr
It is interesting to realize that just the other day I was traveling through the local shopping center with my sister and brother, we decided to walk through a Christmas tree lo...read more
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by Christine G.
I have wonderful childhood memories of the fragrance of freshly-cut Christmas trees covered with real candles and edible ornaments. I have less wonderful adult memories of tryi...read more
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A lot of people has lived their whole life thinking they must have a tree siting in their house on Christmas morning. The reason we get the family together around the 15 th ...read more
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by Piret Waymon
I find it selfish to cut down live trees for a personal gratification. What if the tables were turned around and the same happened to people? A more intelligent and stronger spe...read more
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In the 7th century a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, went to Germany to teach the Word of God. Legend has it that he used the triangular shape of the Fir Tree to describe the Ho...read more
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by Ebey Soman
Do not get me wrong i am not aganist Christmas or its sentiments, but Christmas is not about trees. We do not need to destroy our habitat and our environment to celebrate the bi...read more
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"In the spirit of the season, we went out and killed a tree." - Dr Johnny Fever In a world so desperate for trees, what are we doing cutting down trees for an outdated tradi...read more
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GO FAUX! The benefits of artificial Christmas tree's for mankind and the environment. In a world currently ran into a pit of conformity and chaos from the effects of Global ...read more
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DEATH OF A CHRISTMAS TREE Written Christmas Season 2005 Early January 2006 - millions of once living, beautiful Christmas trees a few months ago, will lie in garbage heaps...read more
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Christmas to me, is a time of joy, of giving and celebrating the birth of Christ. To cut a tree for that celebration is a paradox. We are celebrating the birth of Christ and yet...read more
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by Rex Coker
The wounds are deep , for those that are traditionalist this time of year . Yet another "symbolic testimony . The tree represents everlasting life , it is just a symbol to a lon...read more
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Should live trees be cut down for Christmas trees? Live trees should not be cut down and used as a decoration in someone's home. Trees perform different functions in our environ...read more
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I personally do not feel that Christmas is ruined by not having a real tree. Growing up my parents never had a real Christmas tree, and i have always had fake trees myself. It ...read more
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by Nick Poma
Ecologists and Christians are at odds with one another. The ecologists want trees to be saved and would rather have people use fake trees to adorn their homes this season. The C...read more
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I believe that using real trees for Christmas is a waste of thousands of healthy trees, cut down in their prime. In one of the Christmas episodes on "Friends" Phoebe campaigns o...read more
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by Lulu Malm
I remember the crisply alive, wake-me-up-in-my-lungs perfume of pine oil as we got dragged through the local fruit and veggie shop before Christmas. Strained and drained bodies ...read more
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, did it make a sound? No, you have to be present to realize the sound. Everytime I see that trees are cut for Chris...read more
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by Danalia
I am hearing the arguments that say Christmas tree farms generate a living and that the trees generate oxygen (until they are cut down of course) but there is a little problem h...read more
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Living trees are a precious commodity; they contribute oxygen to the air we breathe. They should not be cut down for Christmas trees. Even if every tree harvested was immediatel...read more
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by Pat Lunsford
Real Christmas trees grow on farms that would cease to exist if people stopped buying them. Just one acre of growing Christmas trees, produces the daily oxygen requirements for ...read more
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I live in a rural area where Christmas tree farms are nearly as common as corn fields. The trees grow for a decade before reaching a marketable size, but in every other way, th...read more
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Unequivocally, and without question, sure! There is a distinction to be made in this scenario: Christmas tree farms. As most of us know there exist Christmas tree farms where tr...read more
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What is Christmas without a Christmas tree? I have always gotten a real tree for christmas. Real trees are beautiful. They have that great evergreen smell to them. Don't get me ...read more
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by Kim Sharpe
Yes, of course live trees should be harvested for Christmas. These tree's are grown specifically for that. They are a crop. Plain and simple. They sustain a farmer and his ...read more
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Nowadays Christmas trees are specifically planted for this goal. No wild trees are cut down for this purpose anymore. If everyone should get a plastic tree there wouldn't be a n...read more
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by D. Anderson
I used to be on the "NO" side of this debate. I thought that my plastic tree that I re-use year after year was the better, more greener of the choices. Until I read an article...read more
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Cutting down live trees for Christmas is not causing an increase in deforestation, the trees being used as Christmas trees are grown on tree farms for the specific purpose of be...read more
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When you first think about it, getting a lovely fake tree seems such a good idea! - You can have one as large as you like and because it lasts from year to year, the cost ...read more
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by MsRose
When a tree is cut down, a baby tree is planted to replace it. Real trees keep our air clean. Using a real tree for Christmas is a wonderful gift. You can buy a tree with it...read more
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by Debbie Robus
Should live trees be cut down at Christmas? The great debate over cutting down trees at Christmas is a question that arose in the late seventies/early eighties. I remember chi...read more
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by Magius
Yes, I think it is legitimate to cut down live trees to celebrate Christmas. In my opinion, this holiday has such a strong cultural value that not cutting down genuine trees wou...read more
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by David Brown
No matter what is said, no matter what is done, there is nothing that can be done when trees are cut down for Christmas. What is the difference when we cut down a tree at Chris...read more
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Live Christmas trees should certainly be cut down for Christmas. Let us remember that most people who are using 'real' trees don't go out into the forest, walk around for hours ...read more
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by iiivix
Christmas trees are a seasonal crop like as pumpkins or watermelons we shouldn't even imply that felling Xmas trees is wrong. We must recognize that we're cutting down trees gro...read more
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Certainly live Christmas trees should be used since tree farmers invest in the small trees, the energy to plant, trim through the years and probably pay people to help them. It ...read more
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Although i think the argument for or against is an irrelevant one, the question should be do you know the policy of the business that you are buying your tree from, moreover do ...read more
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by claira ano
Trees should be cut down for Christmas trees because it helps other trees to grow around them. Yes, thats right cutting down trees actually helps other trees grow. How you might...read more
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Cutting a live tree for Christmas can help the environment. Although it is a little sad at the end of the season, there is one overwhelming reason why cutting a live tree is be...read more
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by Rebecca Hurt
It is quite petty of me, but I have always looked down my nose at people who had "fake" Christmas trees, those plastic affairs, or what ever those artificial things are made of....read more
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