Posted on 08/07/2014 5:46:35 AM PDT by SJackson
When young California-based developer Ivan Pardo launched smartphone app Buycott last year, users at first seized upon its technology to avoid putting coins in the coffers of the conservative billionaire Koch brothers.
Everyday shoppers using iPhones or Android devices could scan the barcode of, say, Brawny paper towel or Dixie cups and trace the corporate ownership of both kitchen cupboard staples to Koch Industries , the conglomerate run by the politically active (and thereby controversial) industrialists Charles and David Koch.
Other popular user-generated Buycott campaigns at the time of its launch included Demand GMO Labeling, allowing shoppers to scan a box of cereal and instantly see if it was made by one of 36 corporations that donated more than $150,000 to oppose the mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.
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Boycott our ally Israel, yet continue to purchase communist Chinese goods from Wallymart and Dollar stores....crazy world we live in.
If I had that app, I would use it to ID Israeli goods, and then buy them.
This is a great app. It can be used to help you find conservative and now Israeli products/stores.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Seems like these articles always lead with Sabra, I suppose because they're such an easy target for the left. Leaving aside the fact than many Arabs would tell you hummus is an Arab food which has nothing to do with Israel.
Probably the worst thing to many liberals, the company was started by a couple of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. No, they didn't make the Hummus in Judea and fly it to NYC, they made it here. Probably exploited the local masses, then pretended to have built something they didn't build.
Evil, greedy capitalists they sold the company to PepsiCo who makes soda with sugar, along with the Strauss Group, an evil Israeli company. Straus (large food distributor) not only supplies food to the IDF, who should starve, but used to support the Golani Brigade on their website, the very unit which perpetrated the Jenin Massacre. I know the Jenin Massacre didn't actually happen, but it was in the New York Times, so it's real.
Wish them luck, in the highly unlikely event a boycott of Sabra was overwhelmingly successful, we'd harm Israel by putting a few hundred Americans on unemployment. A worthy goal.
My only problem getting that app would be contributing to the enrichment of another probably commie-loving, America-hating young lib. Notice, I used the word probably, since I don’t know his heart, only God does, but given the app he created, I doubt this guy is a champion of conservative causes.
Exactly.
it’s expired, anyway. :P
Political Correctness 2.0
(The madness never ends; it only goes high tech)
I would like to use this app to point out Palestinian products
but all I found was 'tunnels to Israel'
DO the Palestininas produce anything else ?
Actually, I was about to post that the best prices on Sabra Hummus that I've found have been at Walmart! I figured that I'd buy it there, to piss the leftists off twice! Buying an Israeli owned product in a non-union store!
Mark
The palis generally “produce” disgust in most other people.
I LOVE Sabra Hummus! It is a little more expensive than the “store brand”, but is SO good.
Their garlic Flavor is the BEST (IMNSHO)
Also, all the ethnic foods in the specialty isles, that are clearly marked “MADE IN ISRAEL” are all high quality and very delicious.
Jaffa oranges are Thick-Skinned, but very juicy and sweet inside.
I seek out Israeli Products because they are so EXCELLENT.
BTW, the cell phone components that make this app possible were most probably developed in Israel.
Am Yisroel Chai!
I’d boycott Hamas/Palistine, if they actually produced anything of value.
It’s apparently a good app to find Israeli goods and BUY THEM!
Where’s the app to find Palestinian Goods....Oh, wait, there are no Palestinian goods.
The left has done our work for us.
We can download the same app and use it to BUY STUFF from Israel or the Koch brothers.
:-)
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