Posted on 02/17/2014 9:18:46 AM PST by rktman
The TTAG tipster who alerted us to PepsiCo’s financial support of Gabrielle Giffords’ 2013 civilian disarmament gabfest entered “pepsico” into the search bar at aspenideas.org. (Fiendishly clever, eh?) Up popped Brad Jakeman, President, Global Beverage Group, PepsiCo, Inc., right below none other than Gabrielle Giffords, the doyenne of disarmament. Being the seasoned journalist I am I Googled Mr. Jakeman’s name and the festival and found the YouTubery above. According to Mr. Jakeman’s full official bio the Aussie was the marketing maven behind Activision’s gun-intensive Call of Duty video game (“There’s a soldier in all of us”). Here he is below Ms. Giffords .
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...
According to a poster at the site:
PepsiCo products:
Pepsi Brands include Frito Lay, Tropicana Juice Products, Quaker Brands, and Gatorade.
Frito Lay Products include Tostitos, Doritos, Lays Chips, and Flat Earth Snacks.
Quaker Brands include Aunt Jemima, Rice-A-Roni, Near East side dishes, Spudz snacks, and Crisp’ums baked crisps.
Quaker Breakfast Cereal Brands include, Life, Puffed Wheat, Harvet Crunch, King Vitamin, Quaker Oh’s!, Mother’s Cereal, and Cap’n Crunch.
Gatorade Brands include G2, and Propel Fit Water.
Pepsi’s SoftDrink Brands include Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Mountain Dew, Diet Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew Voltage, Sierra Mist, and Diet Sierra Mist.
So, remember it’s not just soda.
Soft drinks worst thing you can put in your body.
Finally got tired of tracking a company’s politics for product consumption. Pepsi’s president today could be someone else’s president tomorrow. What is the CEO’s position. Back in the fifties while consuming a bottle (they reused the bottles back then)of Pepsi I noticed the bottom half of the bottle was filled with sludge. Have never had a Pepsi since.
Then don’t drink soda. I had to quit when I was diagnosed as a diabetic and artificial sweeteners in diet soda gave me a bad case of the munchies. I’m lucky I have good tap water, but if you don’t, invest in a filtration contraption (such as Brita) or squeeze some lemon or lime in your water.
Don’t waste your money on this toxic product. Drink seltzer.
No—I actually saw that—and actually almost vomited up the Coke I was drinking at the time.
I’ve been addicted to Coke for more than 60 years-—don’t think that will change now.
It is what it is.
do you really want to live in a world, without coca-cola? /breaking bad
He out to be fired on the spot for business and overall stupidity
Why a company would throw itself into a left wing policy especially one that is angrily opposed is stupidity beyond description.
i don’t know why she quit. like most libtards they’ve shown to screw things up they only need half a brain at most.
seriously though, when was the big ceremony where gabby and mike burned all their old pictures at the rifle ranges, and proudly handed over every single gun and other dangerous weapon they have? did i miss this media extravaganza? i mean if all citizens should be disarmed, then start with those campaigning for it.
I believe big business is pretty much convinced of long term “progressive” control of govt and is trying to purchase “crony capitalist” insurance.
Look at the list of blue chip companies that contribute to Podesta:
Corporate Supporters in Alphabetical Order (2013)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Albright Stonebridge Group
American Beverage Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
Anglo American
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Blackstone
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Engine Message & Media
Blue Shield of California*
BMW of North America
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covanta Energy
CVS Caremark Inc.
Daimler
DeVry Education Group
Dewey Square Group
Discovery
DISH Network
Downey McGrath Group, Inc.
DRS Technologies
Eli Lilly and Company
Facebook
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
GE
Genworth Financial
The Glover Park Group LLC
Goldman Sachs
Google*
Health Care Service Corporation
The Ickes and Enright Group
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Monitor Deloitte
Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA*
MyWireless.Org
Northrop Grumman
Pearson
PepsiCo
PG&E Corporation
Quest Diagnostics
Samsung Electronics America
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, or TECRO
Tata Group of Companies
Time Warner Inc.
T-Mobile
Toyota Motor North America
Visa Inc.
Walmart
Wells Fargo
plenty worse other than soft drinks, and it’s also about how much, like most things.
Only one item on that list I bought in theist year
Quaker products my stomach says are full of soy filler which it complains about loud and long
My BIL had worked for a large soy research company 22 out if 23 came to the conclusion that soy was not tolerated by humans. So they fired them all keeping their or destroying years of research Now I’m sounding like the liberals: grow your own! Don’t eat anything pre made ! Learn to cook! Lol
LMAO! Me too. Water is next.
She was a Democrat before she was shot, so I doubt she was ever pro-2nd Amendment. Either way, her motives are irrelevant. What matters is what she proposes, and the anti gun lobby is simply wrong. More gun rules and regulations do not stop criminals from using guns.
Frankly, it wouldn’t even matter if she was right. She has no legal or moral right under the US Constitution to ban guns short of a constitutional amendment. THAT is the contract between We the People and the federal government, and it contains all the provisions necessary to amend it.
I thought the tobacco smoke I quit two years ago was that?
Our family has switched to Kvass, Russian bread drink, fizzy too. Much healthier than soda drinks. Does not dissolve pennies either.
Ms. Giffords wandered into a public area where anyone could freely go....and they did. A very good man was killed along with five more out of the eighteen shot. Have the others demanded disarmament of lawful people? Giffords is in a way a puppet for the anti-gun people, especially her husband who wants to run for office....on the back of our Constitution's Second Amendment....Jared Loughner was a known nut...does this Politically Correct society carry some blame? Whatever, no more Pepsi in this house!
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