Research before you buy

In this day and age, with the internet they way it is, there really is no excuse for not doing research on something before you invest money in it. Several times recently I have visited web sites that have virtual tours on them, this is a nice idea, expecially for home sales, or people who are proud of their houses, work place whatever. Today I went to a web site for a store that sells essential oils. We have purchased oils from them in the past. They have one of these virtual tours of their store, restaurant and health and beauty salon on the top floor of their building. Just out of interest I went to the home page of the company that does these virtual tours, I am guessing that they provide the hardware to create the tour, and then host it on their server, and on the front page they proclaim how proud they are to be supporters of the local hunting and shooting club here in Winnipeg! Not only that, if you click on the link to find out more about the company, you get to read an essay on how the CEO of the company loves hunting and killing things, and indeed was only 12 years old when he killed his first whitetail! Now I understand that people enjoy the (so called) sport of hunting, I myself come from a family of country bred people for whom hunting was a sport, a necessity in some instances to keep the rabbit population down, and I am not saying that I think it is an abhorance that should be banned from the face of the earth, I realise that in certain cicumstances hunting is the best way to keep down the population of animals that have become a pest in the local environment. What I object to is this so called healthy, peace loving, gentle and spiritual group who call themselves apothecrists are appearing to condone the unnecessary sport of klling deer in Manitoba! I know that deer aren't a pest here, because unlike in Maryland, where deer were omnipresent ( even have antler marks on my car to prove it), I do not see deer on the sides of the roads in town! The only animal that might be considered a pest in Winnipeg is the squirrel, because there are so many of them! Even if hunting is a sport that people should be left to enjoy (yeah ok) a group of healthy, peace loving people should not be happy about being linked to a group that so clearly admires the ability to kill a defenseless animal using a high technology rifle. Clearly the apothecary did not bother to look into the background of the company they hired, or more likely the web design company that designed their web site hired. Which brings me to my initial point, that with the internet the way it is today there is no excuse for researching before purchasing! Especially when you are tryig to present your services and products to the world!

Or am I alone in this thought? Do people use the internet to its fullest extent? Do people care enough to worry about what someone else represents, and how using their services might affect their public face? I am beginning to wonder.