Guest guest Posted September 5, 2001 Report Share Posted September 5, 2001 Here is a followup for those not subbed to notmilk... For the love of life, Jo-Ann Vegan-Talk!! Vegan-Talk BILKED BY SILK Dear Friends, I am about to blast SILK marketing reps for being liars and conducting business in a manner intended to deceive people. White Wave is a company lacking ethics. I do not like being lied to. I thought that Monsanto was the enemy, and White Wave, the good guy riding a white horse and wearing a white cowboy hat. Boy, was I mistaken. When the good guys lie, they cease being good guys. Buy White Wave products, and you are actually supporting the dairy industry. Read on... I have got to exercise extreme care about what I write for two reasons. First, if I make up something about any company or industry, I could be doing them irreparable harm, and a lawsuit might result. Damages could destroy all of my work and jeopardize my family. You can just imagine how the dairy industry would love to silence the Dairy Education Board. Fact is, tens of thousands of things have been posted about milk and dairy products on this website, and I've yet to be sued. Now to the deceivers who market SILK. On March 26th, I wrote and posted this column: notmilk/message/521 JUST FOR THE RECORD On February 15th, I read a press release issued by America's largest soymilk processor, SILK. The press release claimed that Good Housekeeping magazine (GH) performed a blind taste test between Silk Chocolate Soymilk and Hershey's Chocolate Milk, and that 100% of the people tasting both products preferred the soymilk. Here is what I wrote on the 15th of February: " AMAZING TASTE TEST RESULT Independent taste tests conducted by GH offered consumers blind tasting of both chocolate-flavored SILK brand soy milk and Hershey's chocolate milk. One hundred percent of consumers who tasted both products preferred the chocolate Silk, according to Vicky Melen (612-375-8541). " After posting that column, I called GH and was told that no such consumer test was performed. What did happen was that GH food scientists performed their own in-house taste test. They were the ones who preferred SILK, NOT consumers. MORE DECEIT Should you still be in possession of a container of SILK, carefully check the carton. At the bottom, in small print, are the letters DE. Have you ever heard of DE? Neither have I. The presense of those two initials means that the product has been produced and processed by Dairy Equipment. That was a new one for me. Wouldn't you imagine that the SILK people could have added that information to their container? White Wave (they own the SILK line) did over $80 million dollars in business last year. They've had bovine proteins in their soymilk on at least one occasion. Will it happen again? Well, they warned us with their little DE insignia. Don't say I didn't warn you too! Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com ------------------- THE NOTMILK NEWSLETTER: SUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to- notmilk- UNSUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to- notmilk- Forward this message to your milk-drinking friends: Learn about MILK from A to Z: http://www.notmilk.com/milkatoz.html PLAY 2O QUESTIONS: http://www.notmilk.com/notmilkfaq.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2001 Report Share Posted September 5, 2001 Now wait a minute......this guy says that White Wave's press release said: >The press release claimed that Good Housekeeping >magazine (GH) performed a blind taste test between >Silk Chocolate Soymilk and Hershey's Chocolate Milk, >and that 100% of the people tasting both products >preferred the soymilk. The *he* takes the word " people " and turns it into " consumers " : >Here is what I wrote on the 15th of February: > > " AMAZING TASTE TEST RESULT > >Independent taste tests conducted by GH >offered consumers blind tasting of both >chocolate-flavored SILK brand soy milk >and Hershey's chocolate milk. > >One hundred percent of consumers who tasted >both products preferred the chocolate Silk, >according to Vicky Melen (612-375-8541). " So he twists their words around and then gets ticked off because what he said they said wasn't true (although what they actually said was)?? >After posting that column, I called GH and >was told that no such consumer test was >performed. What did happen was that GH >food scientists performed their own >in-house taste test. They were the ones >who preferred SILK, NOT consumers. I would have serious doubts about this guy's credibility and objectivity. Sounds like he has a vendetta against them for his own reasons. Jeri Burdett TerraWeb Technologies--Solutions that fit your style Website hosting, design, & domain registration at down-to-earth prices http://www.twtek.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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