Typically environmental organizations target consumers with overwrought warnings of how some everyday product or activity is destroying the world and threatening their health. Yet now, activists are turning their targets toward major retailers. These companies should reject these scare tactics, which will harm not only their businesses, but consumers too.
The “Mind the Store” campaign, the latest initiative of a
radical environmental organization, pressures the nation’s top ten largest
retailers to remove products from store shelves that contain, in any amount, a
list of one hundred chemicals the organization deems hazardous. Following the
alarmism playbook, the organization claims these chemicals are linked to a
variety of frightening health problems like hormone disruption, cancer, and
birth defects despite the overwhelming body of scientific evidence to the
contrary........ Consumers may not be the
direct targets of the “Mind the Store” campaign, but they have a lot at stake.
They should encourage stores to reject the radical environmentalists’ strong
arm tactics and tell those groups to mind
their own business...... To Read More....
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