Comments on: This makes me wish I ate pork

By: Lisa V

Lisa V — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:48:30 +0000

Update: everything has been settled very well.

http://thelactivist.blogspot.com/2007/02/well-done-pork.html

By: kim

kim — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:18:17 +0000

“The other white milk”?

I . Just. Love. It.

I’ll make my own, just to rub their snouts in it.

When I lived in Ohio, I called a bookstore, part of a national chain known to have had a store manager somewhere in the country who refused to let women breastfeed in the store, (per official policy of the corporate office) and asked if the policy was still in place.

The young woman who answered the phone was sooo confused, she had to get her manager, who, after placing me on hold, came back stammering and hawing that, “No, Miss, we would never dictate such things to women, so please do come in.”

Yeah. Gotcha.

By: orrielynn

orrielynn — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:41:53 +0000

apparently there is a difference in sugars. my husband avoids high fructose corn syrup. he used to be ok with cane sugar, but now he avoids that as well and will only consume items sweetened with fruit juice. so i guess companies worry that their consumers wont buy their products if they dont like the ingredients.

By: shannon

shannon — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:34:42 +0000

That’s very funny. Sadly, I’m not surprised. In Marion Nestle’s latest book she talks about how the cane sugar growers tried to sue her for saying soft drinks are high in sugar. They are trying to claim that “sugar” means cane sugar, versus other forms of sugar like high fructose corn syrup (which soft drinks use). So Nestle had to start saying “sugars” to distinguish that she meant various forms of sugar.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:28:56 +0000

Trademarks are big $$$ and they actually HAVE to defend their trademark or it could, in time, be considered “abandoned” and become public domaine. Whether what Lactivist did was Trademark dilution is up to debate, but they could have written her a friendly letter before bringing out the big guns, since her cause is honorable. Bullying someone who means well tends to backfire, as it did here.