Pepsi Call-In Day: Tell Pepsi to get rid of their deceptive logo!

// July 25th, 2007

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or you can get it delivered right to your Email. Thanks for visiting!

 I just got an e-mail from ThinkOutSideOfTheBottle.Org about a project they are doing today. If you are interested in participating scroll down to the bottom but find out why Watered Bottles are one of the biggest rip offs that exists today. I admit I used to buy tons and tons of watered bottle, infact that’s what I only drank for years!!! (Bad me) but I have seen the light and drink filtered tap water and it’s just as good. Here’s the letter from the Organization. Great information for you to think about.

Do you know where your bottled water comes from? Probably not, because bottled water corporations like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestlé are reluctant to disclose this information. Instead, they prefer to use misleading branding to undermine confidence in public water systems and shape consumers perceptions of bottled water without revealing information about the sources or sites of the water they bottle.  For example, the most popular bottled water brand, Aquafina, is just processed tap water, despite the image of the snow-capped mountain that appears on every label. That’s right; you could get virtually the same water out of your own tap for free!

Join Corporate Accountability International’s Pepsi Day of Action! Ask Pepsi when they will remove the misleading mountain logo on the Aquafina label and become transparent about the sources of the water they bottle. Pepsi is paying attention to this: now we need your help to step up the pressure!

• Every year, millions of dollars are spent to undermine the public’s faith in their municipal water systems. What we don’t realize, however, is that the water we get out of the tap is regulated far more than the bottled water we buy.

• Ads do not disclose that more than one-fourth of bottled water sold in the U.S. comes from municipal sources, just like tap water.

• Pepsi’s Aquafina label features a beautiful picture of a snow-covered mountain, even though Aquafina is filtered municipal tap water.

• Bottled water corporations spent $158 million on advertising in 2005, promoting bottled water as better than tap water and undermining confidence in our public water systems.

• Bottled water corporations are changing the way people think about water. Today, three of four Americans drink bottled water, and one in five drink only bottled water.

Think Outside the Bottle! Take action and join hundreds of people across the country in calling Pepsi today, in a joint Day of Action. Go to www.ThinkOutsideTheBottle.org  for phone numbers and a script to help make your call faster and easier! After you call, please take a moment to let Corporate Accountability know what happened. You can report your phone calls by calling Campaign Headquarters at 800-688-8797 or by sending an e-mail to activistnetwork@StopCorpoateAbuse.org.

Corporate Accountability International is a membership based organization that for 30 years has been protecting people around the world from dangerous and irresponsible corporate practices. For more information on Corporate Accountability International, go to www.StopCorporateAbuse.org.

Popularity: 5% [?]