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- From: x91stockman@gw.wmich.edu
- Subject: BOYCOTT:SnapCrackle&Pop's ProfitSearch
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- Snap, Crackle, and Pop
- have Blood on their hands and dollars in their Eyes.
-
- by Dan Stockman
- X91STOCKMAN@gw.wmich.edu
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- July 13, 1992 the Associated Press reported that Kellogg Co., the
- world's largest cereal manufacturer is planning to expand operations in China.
- Apparently, in the company's Battle Creek, Michigan headquaters, the executives
- made what was for them a very simple decision - dollars over everything.
- Thanks to George Bush, our kinder gentler corporations are free to do
- business with harsher, bloodier governments without fear of sanctions or even
- reprisal.
- Was Tiennemen Square that long ago? Aren't dissidents still being held
- for participating? Aren't hundreds of demonstrators in hiding or exile? Did
- we forget the executions following the massacure?
- The argument that increased trade will encourage change and bring about
- reform are an outright lie designed to hide the real reason for ever doing
- business with a murderous opressive regime. Most favored nation status brings
- about and encourages nothing but profits. There is no other gain whatsoever. In
- fact, those are the same tired arguments that Reagan tried to push on the
- American people with South Africa. Encourage change and bring about reform
- translate to "smokescreen" and "make bundles of $$ under the table."
- Do you think that the lone Chinese student staring down a column of
- tanks will see change because of Tony the Tiger? Will the hundreds run over by
- those tanks later be memorialized by Snap Crackle & Pop? The Chinese government
- as well as Kellogg's stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars on this
- deal. Kellogg claims to be increasing their reach from 800 million people to
- 1.8 billion people. They reported a profit of $606 million on sales of
- $5.8 billion last year. With the dirt wages they'll be more than willing to pay
- in China, thier increase in profit will be exponential.
- Their is another possibility, however. Imagine a headline reading
- "Kellogg drops plans for plants in China" or "Kellogg responds to boycott -
- drops plans". These possibilities are not pipe dreams. Picture again the image
- of a very lonely looking Chinese student, refusing to move from the path of a
- column of tanks. One student stopped a row of machines of unimaginable power.
- All it takes is you to say, I will not buy a product from a company that puts
- dollars over innocent blood. I will not back a company that puts profits over
- human rights. I will not fall victim to the ignorance the Bush administration
- would have me believe.
- All it takes is you.
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