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Subject: Examples of consumer activism online
Category: Business and Money > eCommerce
Asked by: webuserid-ga
List Price: $100.00
Posted: 09 Jun 2005 13:31 PDT
Expires: 09 Jul 2005 13:31 PDT
Question ID: 531500
I need examples of websites or blogs that are ANTI consumer
products/brands in the following categories:
- health & beauty
- baby products
- pet food

Ten for each.
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Subject: Re: Examples of consumer activism online
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 10 Jun 2005 12:32 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Dear Web User ID, 

Please note, that in this day of conglomerates, there are several
companies (Nestle, P & G, for example), that manufacture products from
all three categories, and that there are campaigns to boycott them
completely.

Health and Beauty
=================
Sound Mind & Body Gym
Opposes their Members and their Community
http://www.boycott-smbgym.com/ 

Blue Won?t Pay
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3bvmz/welcome.html

Bosley Medical Violations
http://www.bosleymedicalviolations.com/ 

The Bosley Medical Institute Sued by Attorney General for False Advertising 
http://www.bosleymedical.com/ 

Cotsco Web Pharmacy Sucks
<http://www.pearyhenson.org/costcosucks/> 

P & G Kills
<http://www.pandgkills.com/> 

Animal Abuse by Procter & Gamble 
<http://eden20.orcon.net.nz/BunNoName.html> 

Vogue Sucks
<http://www.voguesucks.com/> 

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
< http://www.safecosmetics.org/> 

Not Too Pretty 
< http://www.nottoopretty.org/> 

Health Care Without Harm 
< http://www.noharm.org/> 

Love Your Body
< http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/> 

This Before you Pink ? 
< http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/CosmeticCompanies.html> 

Jews for Morality
ON THE SOCIO-MORAL ISSUES OF THE DAY
From a Traditional Jewish Perspective
< http://www.jewsformorality.org/press_releases/procter_gamble_campaign.htm> 



Baby Products
=============
The Nestle Boycott
<http://www.breastfeeding.com/advocacy/advocacy_boycott.html> 

McSpotlight on the
Baby Milk Industry
<http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/nestle.html> 

Nestle Boycott
<http://www.wearsthebaby.com/articles/nestle.html> 

Baby Milk Action
< http://www.babymilkaction.org/> 

Nestlé: the bastards!
http://www.urban75.com/Action/nestle.html 

Boycott Nestle
< http://www.uelsu.net/main/myunion/campaigns/BoycottNes> 

NESTLE BOYCOTT 
< http://www.gentleparenting.com/nestle.html> 

Why Boycott Nestle/Risks of Artificial Feeding
< http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8148/nestle.html> 

Why pick on Nestlé?
< http://www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com/nct-online/nestle.htm> 

toxic baby formula
< http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id46/pg1/> 

Beware Of Mickey
BOM!
Disney's Sweatshop in South China
< http://www.cleanclothes.org/companies/disney.htm> 




Pet Food
========

Iams Cruelty 
http://www.iamscruelty.com/

Iams Kills
<http://www.iamskills.com/> 

Animal Protection Institute
What's Really in Pet Food
< http://www.api4animals.org/79.htm> 

J ackie Alan Giuliano, Food Even a Dog Shouldn't Eat - Killing Our
Pets with Every Meal
< http://drjackie.freeservers.com/articles/mar28-1999_food_even_a_dog.html> 

Iams... the suffering behind the 'science'
 < http://www.uncaged.co.uk/iams.htm> 

IAMS - Pet Food Cruelty Exposed 
< http://www.moggies.co.uk/html/iams.html> 

Factsheet ? Petfood
< http://img1.tapuz.co.il/forums/50940466.pdf> 

The Beak Retreat 
< http://www.thebeakretreat.com/petno/> 


The PETCO Boycott 
< http://think.100acrewood.net/boycott/index.asp> 

Campaign to End Animal experiment
< http://www.buav.org/campaigns/petfood/facts.html> 


I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
further clarification on this answer before you rate it.
webuserid-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars

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Subject: Re: Examples of consumer activism online
From: politicalguru-ga on 19 Jun 2005 14:00 PDT
 
Thank you for the rating!

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