Why boycott Tropicana?
Tropicana, owned by PepsiCo, is the world's leading producer of orange juice.
Since 2000, PepsiCo have donated more than $2m to the Republicans and the Bush Administration. This is more than 80% of all PepsiCo's political donations.
The Governor of Florida, America's largest orange producing state, is Jeb Bush, brother of President GW. Until recently, the US was the world's largest producer of oranges, but with huge financial input from the US, Brazil has now overtaken America to became the world's largest orange producer. Brazil and Florida now grow between them nearly 50% of the world's oranges, 95% of which end up as juice.
Boycott Tropicana - Boycott PepsiCo
PepsiCo owns: Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Tropicana, Aquafina, Liptons Iced Tea, Frappuccino, Mountain Dew, Mirinda, Walkers crisps / Lay's potato crisps, Doritos, Quaker Oats, Gatorade, Quavers, Wotsits, Snack-a-Jacks, Sugar Puffs, Aunt Jemima's. (Britvic is the UK bottler for PepsiCo)
Sources:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...682829,00.html
'A Guide to the Money in US Elections': see 'Top All-Time Donor Profiles':
http://www.opensecrets.org
The Top 25 Republican Party donors and their brands: http://www.boycottbush.net/
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