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- From: v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Snapple and anti-abortionism
- Message-ID: <BxuD9v.2Gx@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:49:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.015955.5496@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov17.015955.5496@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) writes...
- >I understand that the topic of my question has been
- >the subject of a substantial thread here, so I first
- >apologize for being late to the cakewalk and asking after
- >something some of you may be tired of hearing about
- >(relevant messages don't seem to still be on my news
- >host) ...
- >
- >I've heard it said that the founders of Snapple are
- >politically somewhat to the right of Attila, and among
- >other things have been hevy contributors to anti-abortion
- >groups; and that, further, there was a boycott against
- >them on the part of pro-choice groups.
- >
- >Is this true? Is there a way to find out more about
- >the specific causes that the Snapple folks have helped
- >out? Who called the boycott? How, if at all, is this
- >affected by aa leveraged buyout of Snapple I've heard
- >about this year?
- >
- >Thanks for any responses; my (previous Snapple-loving)
- >friends were chagrined to hear this, but want to get a
- >little more corroboration.
- >
- >Frank
- >frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
-
- I don't know-I've heard this and I put a note up on Prodigy about it, in the
- then site for most of the abortion discussions, Parenting Philosophy in
- Homelife. Nobody could really say anything other than that they heard something
- or other, and that they advertise heavily on Rush Limbaugh. But that doesn't
- prove anything.
-
- Dan Case
-