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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Snapple and abortion issue
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.145454.5638@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:54:53 EST
- References: <1992Nov13.183243.15936@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov13.183243.15936@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) writes:
- > Some days or weeks back in this newsgroup in a
- > discussion of Snapple's IPO, buyout, etc, someone
- > posted a message noting that the company's founders
- > donated heavily to anti-abortion causes; and that
- > those who disagreed with that position and who
- > took social issues into account in their buying
- > habits (both as consumers and stockholders) might
- > want to take that into account.
- >
- > Is there any more substantiation of this? A
- > number of my (previously Snapple-loving) friends
- > were disturbed to hear this, but would like more
- > corroboration.
-
- That was me. There was a large debate about it in alt.activism and
- soc.motss. A post there will yeild all the gory details. I don't want to
- infect misc.invest with abortion debate, though.
-
- Brett
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