I have an idea.
This is a very interesting movement. I think one thing we can all agree on is labelling. So let’s start a campaign mailing to people in power: we want a label.
Rules:
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Every week everybody taking part writes 1 Mail to 1 group of people. For example: Week 1: Supermarkets Week 2: EU Parlimantarians We agree on the group by a weekly Poll. You can choose between the highest voted ideas of last week.
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Every Mail has to contend one reason why you want a EU Label.
I want to use this post to discuss the idea and rules.
If you agree I will post 2 posts weekly:
- Poll and suggestions for next week
- The day i will after the topic of said week and ask you to comment your text ideas 2.1. in the following days i comment on the second post with a text I used.
The problem is that usually American brands have a cop-out because their products are manufactured in Europe, both for economic reasons and to adjust the product to local tastes - American Coca Cola tastes vile if you didn’t ruin your taste buds on a HFCS diet. And they do this through European subsidiaries, so any labeling scheme would need to deal with controlling interests and that’s when things become really complicated from a legal perspective.
The advantage of informal boycott schemes is that they don’t need to deal with technicalities like a formal scheme would.
No problem, European owned only. Out with AmeriCorp and the likes.
You would still need to deal with products made by Beverage Co GmbH owned by Beverage Holdings Ireland LTD owned indirectly through 50 different holdings and board members personal shares by Great American Reich Beverages Inc from Trump Creek, Florida. Ownership is not always linear.