It's time to buy all the Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Aquafina etc that you can........

[marmar]

..... to spite the American Family Association, which is launching yet another boycott to punish a company for its support of the infamous "gay agenda."

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:


from the AFA:

Frequently (yeah, right) Asked Questions regarding the PepsiCo boycott


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What is the boycott about?
PepsiCo, as a company, is financially supporting homosexual groups whose activities include promoting homosexuality in the marketplace, in the public square, and in lobbying for same-sex marriage. Examples are gay pride parades, aggressively pushing elected public officials to approve gay marriage, and conferences designed to expand social acceptance of the lifestyle.

Is there a difference between PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation?
The PepsiCo Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the PepsiCo Company. While many cash donations to gay groups comes through its foundation, other donations come directly from the general budget. The foundation is operated under the direct authority of PepsiCo.

Doesn't PepsiCo own KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell? Why aren't they included in the boycott?
No. These three restaurant chains were sold by PepsiCo in 2002.

Are the Pepsi-Cola distributors a part of PepsiCo?
Yes and No. Forty percent of Pepsi's 95 distribution plants are corporate owned. The other 60% are made up of individual franchises. Franchises, as distributors, are the company's public representatives in areas they do business in.

What about Coke? Don't they do some of the same things?
AFA's boycott efforts are currently being focused on PepsiCo, asking them to remain neutral in the culture war.


http://www.boycottpepsico.com/faq.aspx

[Thickasabrick]

1. Done!!

[madokie]

2. Drinking a Mountain Dew as I type

[Merlot]

17. Good for you...now go brush your teeth!

mountain dew is really hard on teeth!

[Maine-ah]

40. so is red wine.

;-) :P

[GinaMaria]

50. self delete... Wrong place

[MADem]

3. I doubt their little whine will have any effect at all! What tools!

I don't think they'll give up their Dew in Kentuck, that's for sure!

[panader0]

4. No sodas for me. I'm a beer guy. 'burp'

[AyanEva]

5. I'm a Dale Jr. fan

So I'm already all over that. XD I love Coke as my choice of cola but I'm absolutely ADDICTED to Amp and Mountain Dew. Especially Amp.

Me thinks it's time to go stock up on it tomorrow. :D I just can't get enough of the stuff because it tastes like candy and I'll sit there and drink two cans straight. I'm pretty sure that's probably an extremely unhealthy amount of caffeine. lol

[Captain Hilts]

6. And to think Pepsico was a major Republican drink! How times do change!

I hear they're going to start making Pepsi with some real sugar rather than High fructose corn syrup. Can't wait!!

[Mnemosyne]

20. Pepsi with sugar again? !

:woohoo:

Maybe I'd buy it again.

[Captain Hilts]

42. I haven't been able to find Kosher Coke in small bottles the past couple of Passovers.

That's when I shop for mine because it's sweetened with pure cane sugar.

[Mnemosyne]

62. I switched to Jones, never have found Kosher anything in my podunk town.

One of the "joys" of small town living.

:hi:

[Mollis]

37. I had soda like that in France.

It tasted much better than the stuff with hfcs. I can't wait :D

[Captain Hilts]

43. Well, Passover's coming up, so buy your Coke and Pepsi then when the Kosher stuff is for sale.

problem lately has been finding it in something smaller than 2 litre bottles.

Cane cola is good, but I've had a hard time finding that lately.

[hootinholler]

47. That would be awesome!

I buy Jones soda because it's made with cane, not HFCS.

-Hoot

[rpannier]

7. Diet Pepsi drinker. Have for over a decade

Good to know I'm supporting a company the AFA hates

[JeffR]

8. Where would the nation be without the AFA?

Eureka, I've got it: more civil and more civilized. Hurry up, Rapture! America can't take much more of this crap.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Why would I buy tap water???

:rofl:

Suckers.

[cherish44]

24. Yeah no kidding. Asking for water at Panda express used to be free

Now you have to BUY a bottle of it. well if I have to pay for it anyway might was well throw in some sugar, caffeine and artificial coloring.

[MattBaggins]

25. What state do you live in?

That would be illegal here in NY.

[BlooInBloo]

34. I haven't been to a mall in WA for awhile where you could get free water...

in a mall-restaurant.

[cherish44]

35. Well here's a picture of the guy who was working the cash register at Panda Express..

Yep... Land of Lincoln

[donco6]

10. Mmmmm, Diet Pepsi.

Just bought a case.

[CatholicEdHead]

11. Too late for a Dew tonight, I will have a Livewire at lunch tomorrow

:evilgrin:

[last_texas_dem]

12. Sounds good to me

Don't drink a whole lot of Coke *or* Pepsi products, but I do like Lipton (which I think Pepsi used to (still?) distribute(s)) and the occasional Mountain Dew- though I've tried to cut back on those.

Interestingly, I wasn't aware that Pepsi no longer owned Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, and apparently they sold these restaurants seven years ago!

[NOW tense]

13. Does Pepsi make wine products? n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

14. Mr. AAL practically has a Mt. Dew mainline

so we're doing our part! :eyes:

;)

[crikkett]

15. Too bad/so sad that None of that stuff is Any good for You, nevermind the Planet.

It's not like we have a landfill problem, or that there's a mound of plastic the size of Texas in the Pacific, or that the stuff is packaged in plastic=OIL.

[midnight]

16. Doesn't pepsi make fresca. I never buy soda, but I had a valentines

day party and made a punch using Fresca-good stuff. I will have to check, but if pepsi makes it, I will splurge again.

[marybourg]

18. Yeah, spite the right: develop kidney disease -

see e.g. http://www.renalbusiness.com/hotnews/excessive-soft-drink-consumption-boosts-women.html

[JerseygirlCT]

19. Well, when I have to. I just love Coke, myself!

Actually, I really ought to break my addiction to that stuff entirely. I'm down to usually one a day, though!

[blue_onyx]

27. I'm a Coke fan too

I cut down too. My dentist mentioned that my back teeth were a little discolored and cutting down on Coke would help. Now, I drink it only at lunch and dinner. When I go out to dinner, I don't get it...helps cut down on Coke and saves money by getting water. It hasn't been a big deal for me. I found myself drinking Coke even if I didn't necessarily want it. I would just grab it out of habit.

[JerseygirlCT]

54. I've never liked coffee, and tea's ok, but not something I crave.

So I usually have my coke in the am on the way to work for the caffeine.

I'm a total snob about it, though, and want stuff from the fountain. A bottle just doesn't do it. And 7-11 or Wawa have the best fountains, but 7-11's aren't many here, and Wawa's almost non-existent. The Sunoco place's soda always tastes like Cepacol!

[Control-Z]

21. I'm always torn

between choosing Pepsi or Coke.

This makes it so much easier. It'll be Pepsi when I go to the market from now on. In fact, I may even start buying two 12-packs instead of the one I usually get.

[handmade34]

22. two wrongs don't make a right...

pepsi is just another exploitive corporation that is destroying the health of our children... and the only reason they support gays rights is because it sells right now!!! I won't bu bottled water and I won't buy way overpriced colored sugar water...

[cherish44]

23. So why do people like Mountain Dew so much?

TRIPLE YUCK!! It's sickeningly sweet. It's actually banned from my house because my daughter gets mega hyper when she dranks it (actually any soda does that but Mt. Dew is nectar of the devil himself!) And of course since it's forbidden at home it's all she wants when she's not at home. She especially comes back from her Dad's hopped up on the Dew. I think he's doing it on purpose.

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Check the caffeine content of Dew...

that's why.

[AyanEva]

49. It's like crack or something.

If I have even one sip, I have to drink and drink and drink. I stopped buying it because I was drinking too much of it. And then I switched to Amp, which is probably even worse.

[jmg257]

26. Diet Pepsi at work, Diet Coke at home...I am in!

[JI7]

28. i don't think people need to buy them

unless they already plan to get soda or pick up some fast food. but people shouldn't go out of their way just to spend there since it's not very good stuff.

[Cheap_Trick]

29. Buy more Pepsi...pay my paycheck.

Fuck the tightie-righties and their mother they rode in on.

[BirminghamExaminer]

30. They're also boycotting Campbell's Soups

Because Campbell has an advertisement in a lesbian magazine.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1172-Birmingham-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2009m1d21-AFA-boycotts-Pepsi-for-donating-to-Straight-for-Equality

[Pushed To The Left]

39. Great news! I am eating a Campbell's Chunky Soup as I type this. I will now enjoy my Chunky soups

even more!! :bounce: Campbell's Chunky Roadhouse Chili is some damn good stuff too.

[KathieG]

32. Perfect, I'm addicted to Mountain Dew!

[LiberalPersona]

33. bah, I used to drink Dew heavily

but it kind of lost its flavor to me, I think I drank it so much that I became too accustomed to it

[tuvor]

36. Or better yet, send some $$ to your local chapter of PFLAG.

Just as a for-example.

I hate bubbly, brown sugar-water, anyway.

[bridgit]

38. we don't drink that stuff...

[shadowknows69]

41. I hear "Teh Gays" consume all kinds of brand name food and beverages

Maybe the hate filled idiots will boycott themselves into starvation and extinction eventually if we're lucky.

[Captain Hilts]

44. They shop at SAFEWAY, PigglyWiggly, Stop 'n' Shop,Vonn's, GIANT, etc. They're sneaky! nt

[madmom]

45. Wonder if we can talk them into boycotting chocolate?: )

[DemoTex]

46. Jon Stewart said it best .. and I paraphrase:

Any organization with "family" in its name is NOT a happy group of people.

Ain't that the truth.

[hootinholler]

48. "asking them to remain neutral in the culture war"

Who's war? WAR???

-Hoot

[GinaMaria]

52. everything is a war to some people

it's sad how strong the death instinct is with a large segment of our population.

[JerseygirlCT]

55. I saw that, too

First, they declare war - unilaterally - then ask others to "stay neutral". Say what? No one would be fighting this "war" if they hadn't decided it needed to exist!

[GinaMaria]

51. Code Red... hard to find in diet

But when I do, I load up. It's like a Shirley Temple or Roy Rogers but with Caffeine.

[wartrace]

53. No can do, I don't drink that crap. Well water & coffee only here. n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

56. I proudly did my duty today with my Livewire at lunch

and more Livewire this week, with some Voltage next week.

[Tesha]

57. Just as long as you keep mindful of "Mountain Dew mouth"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew_mouth

[lame54]

58. Brokeback Mountain Dew?

[SandWalker1984]

59. Had a conversation with one of those types last week.....

in a mall food court. An older couple at a nearby table seemed very upset (lots of fascial expressions) while watching a young lesbian couple holding hands at another table. The gentleman made a couple of comments rather loudly to his wife about the young couple. Turns out he is a retired pastor of an evengelical chuch. I couldn't resist - I told him if God created all mankind in "his" image, than the homosexuals are also created in God's image. After getting an earful of self-rightousness, I asked him why he thinks homosexuals are evil but incest is not. I told him to go home and read the story of Lot in his Bible. According to the Bible, he should also beat his wife for disobedience and stone his fellow church members that commit adultry. But hey, he no longer wanted to talk to me.

I have several friends that are gay. They are what they are by birth, not choice. They are all, in my opinion, God's children too.
Pepsi it is.....

[Mollis]

60. I know some people like that.

It annoys the hell out of me.
BTW...welcome to DU :hi:

[Raine]

61. I woudn't drink that crap

is someone paid me to do it. :puke:

[Odin2005]

63. Do the Dew!!! n/t

[tuvor]

64. Not so fast. Put down that bubbly brown sugar-water.

PepsiCo Gets in Bed With Rockstar, Michael Savage

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x121008#121019

[FreeState]

65. No Pepsi or Michael Savage Rockstar for this gay man n/t