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What's wrong with PepsiCo?

Pepsico works in countries that have oppressive regimes, it uses animals to test nutronial studies, it's also a big sponsor of Bush.

Chairman and CEO: Steven S Reinemund
Postal address: PepsiCo Inc. Anderson Hill Road Purchase N.Y. 10577 USA
Phone number: not known
Fax number: not known
Website: www.pepsico.com
Email address: postmaster@pepsi.com

Multinational:

PepsiCo is part of the food & drink industry.

PepsiCo owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, the world's largest quick-service chicken restaurant with outlets in 58 countries. KFC has been the focus of recent protests in India.

Bush donor: Pepsico is one of the sponsors of Bush. From 2000 till now, Pepsico have given US$2,070,000 to the Republican Party.

Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: The main criticism of PepsiCo Inc. is the fact that it operates in countries considered to be oppressive regimes. PepsiCo has subsidiaries in Burma, Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey. It also has a joint venture in India and bottling plants in China. During the years of economic sanctions against South Africa, PepsiCo continued a sales and licensing agreement with a South African company.

Source: The Ethical Consumer Guide to Everyday Shopping, published by the Ethical Consumer Research Association.

Abusing animals: PepsiCo has in-house animal-testing facilities, where it conducts nutritional studies on laboratory rats. It also sponsors experiments to test the safety of certain ingredients.

Sources:
The Ethical Consumer Guide to Everyday Shopping, published by the Ethical Consumer Research Association.
www.mcspotlight.org: a page about PepsiCo

Iraq war profiteering:

Pepsi returns to Iraq after 13 years
By Cecile Feuillatre, in Baghdad

BAGHDAD Soft Drinks chief executive officer Hamid Jassim Khamis has returned from New York and he is fizzing with excitement. After 13 years of UN sanctions his firm is back in the PepsiCo fold.

The US soft drinks giant signed a franchise agreement last week with Baghdad Soft Drinks, Iraq's leading producer, authorising it to produce and distribute Pepsi, Seven-Up and Mirinda in central Iraq. Baghdad Soft Drinks Company first became a Pepsi franchisee in 1984. However that relationship ended in 1990 when PepsiCo had to pull out of Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait and the imposition of international trade sanctions on Saddam Hussein's regime.

Source: Agence France-Presse

Last update: May 2005