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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on November 17, 2014, 01:44:46 PM
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G_j (35,239 posts)
Neil Young Boycotts Starbucks
http://www.jambands.com/news/2014/11/17/neil-young-boycotts-starbucks/
In a new post on his website entitled “Goodbye Starbucks,†Neil Young is boycotting the popular coffee chain over its alleged backed of Monsanto in a lawsuit against Vermont. Monsanto is suing to overturn the law in Vermont requiring labels for all products containing GMOs
Neil Young’s full post below:
I used to line up and get my latte everyday, (Sure you did. You mean you had some 60-year-old Stevie Nicks wish-she'd-been pull on her stained Lee's and go braless down the canyon for you) but yesterday was my last one. Starbucks has teamed up with Monsanto to sue Vermont, and stop accurate food labeling.Tell Starbucks to withdraw support for the lawsuit — we have a right to know what we put in our mouths.Starbucks doesn’t think you have the right to know what’s in your coffee. So it’s teamed up with Monsanto to sue the small U.S. state of Vermont to stop you from finding out.Hiding behind the shadowy “Grocery Manufacturers Association,†Starbucks is supporting a lawsuit that’s aiming to block a landmark law that requires genetically-modified ingredients be labeled. (But LSD has noooooo modified ingredients, huh?)Amazingly, it claims that the law is an assault on corporations’ right to free speech.Monsanto might not care what we think — but as a public-facing company, Starbucks does. (And this is the FIRST thing mega-corp Starbucks has ever done to rile a proto-lib like yourself?) If we can generate enough attention, we can push Starbucks to withdraw its support for the lawsuit, and then pressure other companies to do the same.Vermont is a small, entirely rural state with just 600,000 people. It’s a classic David and Goliath fight between Vermont and Monsanto. Considering that Starbucks has been progressive on LGBT and labor issues in the past, it’s disappointing that it is working with the biggest villain of them all, Monsanto. Monsanto LogoThere’s much more at stake here than just whether GMO foods will be labeled in a single U.S. state. Vermont is the very first state in the U.S. to require labeling. Dozens of other states have said that they will follow this path — in order to encourage this, we need to ensure that Vermont’s law stands strong.That’s why Monsanto and its new allies are fighting so hard to kill GMO labeling in Vermont.But whatever you think of GMOs, corporations should not be using massive lawsuits to overturn legitimate, democratic decisions with strong public backing.SumOfUs is already fighting back — they helped Vermont raise almost a quarter of a million dollars to defend themselves against Monsanto’s bullying! Help them by going to SumOfUs and registering to donate or sign a petition. The next strategic step is to pressure and call out members of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the shadowy body leading the lawsuit. Your backing can help.Add your voice now. Tell Starbucks to stop supporting the lawsuit against Vermont.Thanks for caring!
Neil Young
Blah blah. Lost interest. So did the world, in Neil Young, around 1980.
To paraphrase a well-known lyric: A conservative man don't need him around, anyhow.
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heh, and I used to sing his songs in coffeehouses in college. Sort of ironic . . . (Starbucks didn't exist then or at least not in Ohio)
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Thought he ODed years ago.
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In anyone's dead pool ?
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The brain died at least 30 years ago, but the empty husk lives on.