Boycott Pepsi Products?!?!

i think i may be that dumb.

little things that you change within yourself can change the world.
if you live your life as you wish others to do, and how you could imagine the world gaining peace, i believe you have made a step.

it is my belief, the world doesn't change because of the view that these things cannot change the world.

a lot of us are hypocrites to our ideals, but it is gaining a closer point to our ideals which will change the World, even if initially it is only our life that improves

 

I received this in a e-mail a few days ago thought i would post it since it pertained to pepsi;

DON'T BUY PEPSI IN THE NEW CAN!

Pepsi has a new "patriotic" can coming out with pictures of the
Empire State Building, and the Pledge of Allegiance on them.

However, Pepsi left out two little words on the pledge, "Under God."

Pepsi said they didn't want to offend anyone.

In that case, we don't want to offend anyone at the Pepsi corporate office, either!

So if we don't buy any Pepsi product, they will not be offended
when they don't receive our money that has the words
"In God We Trust" on it.

 

The only way that people can get their opinions acrossed is by voting. And by voting, I mean spending the almighty dollar. When a company doesn't make enough money off their new campaign, they usually drop it.

What was that Pepsi product in the 80's? Pepsi blue? The company didn't meet projected profits so that product was dropped. That's how we as a society can make a difference, if people choose not to be "free riders"

Peace and love

 

why thank you,
you have got it right, if you personally have no issues with coke or any product, and have no issues with others then their isn't an issue really.

when i have issues with companies i just do not give them my money (hypothetical money, as i have none at present). i do not pressure pthers to do the same, i hope that i live my life as an example to how i wish the world to be, but never enforcing it.

which is why a combination of having no money, and dislike of mny companies, that i end up creating my own clothes and items.
live your ideal

 

Unfortunately I don't know the details -- maybe someone can help me out -- but on many college campuses there are protest postings encouaging people to boycott Coca-Cola. I think it has something to do with unfair practices in poor nations.

There's lots of discussion above about glucose sucrose mono and disaccharides etc. The bottom line is that sweetened soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi contain the equivalant of LOTS of sugar (like 8 teaspoons or something) and so one shouldn't indulge very often.

Most progressive "hippy" vendors sell alternative colas like China Cola (made by Reeds) and it might be better to patronize them rather than Coke or Pepsi. Also they used to sell cola syrup maybe people could make their own concoction at home.

(Also I wonder whether Coke and Pepsi use real cola syrup -- I wouldn't be surprised if what they use is chemically produced.)

Finally there's a post above suggesting smoking is ok in moderation. Well it better be damn moderate. People need to understand that smoking 3 cigs a day in females or 6 a day in males DOUBLES the rate of progression of atheroscerosis which is the #1 killing disease in the USA. I have discussed this of course in the post about margarine.

 

i would if i liked coke, too sugary for me, good old fashioned water is all i need:H

 

I personally have bigger issues with McDonalds. Jeez do they ever get an order right.

I've handed over a list on paper and they've got it wrong, I've ordered one item and they've got it wrong.

I mean when I ask for "A quarterpounder without cheese meal" what would you expect to get. Well being that the chips don't have cheese and coke doesn't have cheese they should still be there. The burger should not have cheese on it.

What I end up getting is either the burger with cheese on it or the burger without any of the other stuff like onions, gherkin etc.

Coke and Pepsi always have the correct contents.

 

its called karma dude, for eating at mcdonalds

 

I never drink soda, ever.

 

You are right. Bad things happen to bad people. I'm gonna call myself Earl.

In this case stupid things happen to stupid people cos I still go back for more.

 

Earl. LOL!

druminmama had it right about how to boycott, if you are going to do it. I remember the Great Boycotts of the 70s, Lettuce Boycotts and Grape Boycotts and even a meat boycott. The news would actually talk about it (which they don't do now) and people would participate. MY parents would participate. And the damned things worked. They were for better conditions for the workers. I would venture a guess that most of the kids who wear Che Guevara T Shirts have no idea he started his political career with a lettuce and a grape boycott!

 

i stopped buying any product from the pepsi co a long time ago including Mcdonalds KFC and pizza hut and taco bell. but for a different reason they support hand gun control efforts. and McDonalds donates a portion of all profits to HCI i just can not stand the idea of some of my money going directly into the pockets of a group trying to take away my rights.

 

McDonalds isn't in any way affiliated with Pepsi.

But boycott Coke if you need to pick a cola not to buy - they've assassinated union officials.

 

never said Mcdonalds was connected to pepsi only included them in the statment.

as for taking out some union reps, maybe they should get some more out of the way so prices will go down in this country.

 

From what I've heard, coke is far worse than pepsi.... although I havnt heard any stories about pepsi.

The coke company has made deals with the mexican president, viciente fox or whatever his name is, and together they have banned most other commercially sold softdrink. Most of the water in mexico is polluted however, so it must be bought at stores (running water is no good). But through these deals, coke and fox have gone and made water more expensive to buy than the double-the-caffein/double-the-sugar cocacola. So a majority percentage of the impoverished mexicans are being forced to buy coke in order to survive, and after drinking it for awhile become quite addicted to it. Ive heard (not sure if it was a reliable source) that at any given time there is more coke in mexico than drinkable water.

I'm sure pepsi does the same kind of thing in helpless countries here and there. You are better off to just not buy anything from those $$-driven, manipulative, careless bastards.

 

If anyone is opposed to Pepsi products, then there are alternative besides Coke. Jones soda is one and also Blue Sky. Blue Sky makes a great Orange Cream soda. I try not to drink it much because of the sugar content/empty calories, however once in a while won't hurt. I think if you like soda, you should limit it to no more than 1 or 2 a day, though I don't drink that much.
However I do not put ANY fake sugar in my body any more. That shit is *awful* for you, even Splenda (and Splenda also had terrible animal testing invovled).

I hope the two companies I listed help those who do not want to support Coke or Pepsi.

 

thats like phyco to ban Pepsi over a commercial, I mean what hippies have no sense of humor either, its a joke, get over it. I mean I hate Pepsi but its cuz it sucks for flavor.

 

that commercial makes me laugh... lol I like it... sometimes its ok to make fun of yourself. I believe its for the product "Vault" some farmer makes a robotic scare crow to protect his corn crop and farm.. hee hee...


Mike...

 

Diet Pepsi/Coke is horrible for you. It's sweetened with Aspartame, which contains methanol, the ingredient in moonshine that caused blindness. Not to mention causing cancer and an array of other problems. But it's especially hard on the optic nerve.

Splenda, Nutrasweet and most other sweeteners are just aspartame under different names, so take note.