Unilever’s publicity stunt

May 2024 Forums General discussion Unilever’s publicity stunt

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    ALB
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    What do people think of this advertisement for the multinational corporation Unilever:

    https://www.projectsunlight.co.uk/stories/401245/Ending-Food-Waste-Is-Our-Generation-s-Challenge.aspx

    It's also on TV at the moment between and in the middle of programmes.

    Can hypocrisy and cynicism from a profit-making capitalist enterprise sink any lower?

    In any event, eliminating food waste won't solve the problem the ad highlights. What are they proposing to do with the food saved — to give it to foodbanks instead?

    What is required rather is the production of food for use and not for profit and this implies that the Earth's resources become the common heritage of all. Something Unilever clearly wouldn't want.

    #106202
    alanjjohnstone
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    Lets be truthful, they are only saying what so many green environmentalists say…begin at the personal level with individual changes and choices…Stop the great unwashed from breeding. Can we blame when corporatons takes its cue from the supposed opposition and co-opt their belief system and turn it into a smoke and mirrors to obscure the true reality that we need system change at society level . BTW, what is the central heating temperture set at for HO..turn it down 1 centigrade and if we all do that, that's one powerstation that can be mothballed…balderdash…But it is so easy to play the game

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    Can hypocrisy and cynicism from a profit-making capitalist enterprise sink any lower?

    Yes:http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/11/18/walmart-store-holding-thanksgiving-charity-food-drive-for-its-own-employees/

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    Maybe, at long last, the blinders will come off when these deniers are forced to come to grips with the fact that Walmart associates are paid so poorly that a store in Canton, Ohio, located in the northeastern part of the state, now holds an annual, Thanksgiving drive to collect canned foods for fellow Walmart employees in need.Walmart spokesperson, Kory Lundberg, thinks this is all just the most wonderful thing—bragging that the drive to collect holiday food for fellow employees shows just how much Walmart employees care about one another.
    #106204
    jondwhite
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    Yep, I've seen the advert and thought it hypocritical and cynical. Somehow though, I can see profit making enterprises sinking lower still.

    #106205
    ALB
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    Walmart spokesperson, Kory Lundberg, thinks this is all just the most wonderful thing—bragging that the drive to collect holiday food for fellow employees shows just how much Walmart employees care about one another.

    [/quote]Maybe that's why they call it Black Friday:http://www.asda.com/blackfriday/index.htmlIt's today if you're interested.

    #106206
    jondwhite
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    Here's another examplehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857235/SamCam-leaves-Number-10-mornings-cook-breakfast-rough-sleepers-David-Cameron-reveals-volunteering-drive.html

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