Pepsi (Australia) competition - Win a greyhound, race it & try to win 100,000 dollars - Action

September 13, 2006

Okay, if they follow through with these plans we should all boycott Pepsi! I don't drink it to begin with so that wouldn't be too much work for me. Trisha R <Taliesson wrote: Pepsi is currently promoting an Australian competition - Win a greyhound, race it & try to win 100,000 dollars in Australia + Action Please forward this. Pepsi is promoting currently a competition on Australian TV. Trust a multinational to think of this one. It could be used however to expose the great exploitation and cruelty of the Greyhound racing industry. Thousands of "surplus" greyhounds each year are killed by the greyhound racing industry.In the US, 34 states have banned greyhound racing. Hopefully it will be banned in Australia. Pepsi has a new promotion called "Dollars or the Dog" http://www.dollarsordog.com.au/game_v2.swf (turn down the volume!). It basically involves consumers entering a competition in

which they can choose the prize if they win. The prizes being $5,000 or "the Dog" (ownership of a greyhound who will race with the possibility of prize money of $100,000). Prizes are given away daily. See also the Greyhound Racing NSW website - http://www.grnsw.com.au/News.aspx?News_Id=604 =============== Action ================ Please use links below to point out to Pepsi are not being a good responsible corporate citizen because greyhound racing is inconsistent with their corporate objective: Pepsi says "Our objective is to be a good corporate citizen wherever we operate." and that such animal abuse, which has been outlawed elsewhere, is a global, not a local, issue. Pepsi's corporate objective "Our objective is to be a good corporate citizen wherever we operate." Please use the online contact form for the board of directors at Pepsico http://www.pepsico.com/PEP_Investors/CorporateGovernance/contact/contactForm/ , and cited in it a clause from their own Code of Conduct (see http://www.pepsico.com/PEP_Investors/CorporateGovernance/CodeofConduct/english/images/Code_of_Conduct.pdf ) as follows: Please contact the Nova (Australian Radio stations) which are promoting this Pepsi competition "Dollars or the Dog" Nova 96.9 Sydney http://tinyurl.com/qtsx8 Nova 100 Melbourne http://tinyurl.com/mn8as Nova 93.7 Perth http://tinyurl.com/mjjvw Nova 106.9 Brisbane http://tinyurl.com/o4mx9 Nova 91.9 Adelaide http://tinyurl.com/oyxld To read about statistics regarding the fate of "surplus" greyhounds in Qld http://www.qgar.oceandrop.org/Greyhounds_Stats_Australia.htm To read some international articles on greyhounds including Australian reports http://www.qgar.oceandrop.org/Greyhounds.htm PETITION BELOW!!! http://www.gopetition.com/online/6648.html DNA DATABASE http://groups.msn.com/NewLifeAmericanPitBullTerrierRescue/dnalist.msnw?action=view_list & row=12 & viewtype=2 & sortstring= Feed An Animal Everyday, Once a Day for FREE!! http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa HELP ANIMALS! http://www.goodsearch.com/