Via Cory Doctorow, the plastic grocery bag people (who are blighting the land with their awfulness) are pushing back against reusable cloth bags:
The Canadian Plastic Industry Association commissioned a study concluding that using cloth bags is bad for your health because they're full of bacteria (and certainly not because using cloth bags is bad for the profitablity of Canadian Plastic Industry Association members!). [...]
...cloth bags put you at risk of "skin infections such as bacterial boils, allergic reactions, triggering of asthma attacks, and ear infections".
AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!
Bullshit.