Jobs responds to Rotten Apple Jabs from Environmentalists

Yet more evidence that Steve Jobs reads TUAW: earlier today I posted about some environmentalists getting their collective undies in a wad over Apple's policy on the disposal of e-waste. Mere hours later, Steve responds!  Coincidence? Yeah, okay, it's coincidence. :-b

So,
in reality, all this went down earlier today when Apple was picketed by the environmentalists, but it's just trickling down the news pipe now.  Behold the power of the internet!  News.com just posted
this interesting story, in which Steve Jobs uses an expletive (gasp) "to express his frustration at Apple being singled out for criticism over its peers."

On the topic of iPod batteries, News.com reports Jobs claiming "that consumers often throw batteries into the trash. He also said that tens of thousands of iPod customers have replaced their batteries through Apple and that Apple properly disposes of the depleted batteries. He went on to note that while the iPod has a small amount of lead, much more of the harmful compound is in cathode-ray tube monitors, which Apple has abandoned for all but its eMac computers."

Yes, fine, good. But does Apple own any actual oxygen and food creating, nature friendly Apple orchards? Do they?!