Boycotting Monsanto? There's an App for That Diets in Review
go to original May 19, 2013

Koch-blocked! App Helps You Boycott Koch Brothers and Monsanto (TheYoungTurks)

Are you one of the millions of Americans hell bent on putting this monster of a company, and its peers, in their place? There’s now a downloadable app for that. In fact, Buycott, which launched this month to much consumer excitement, will help you boycott products from brands you’ve no interest in supporting. So many consumers want to vote with their dollars, but because of the tangled web weaved by mergers and company ownership, few people know that when they innocently buy a box of Duncan Hines cake mix that the brand is owned by Monsanto.

Now with Buycott, you can simply scan the bar code of any product at the grocery store and find out which company is behind it. The idea is certainly not to complicate your grocery experience, what with the reading of ingredient and nutrition labels, too, but rather to arm you with more information to make a most educated decision.

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