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- Published on Wednesday, 27 January 2016 04:00
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It’s 2016 and we’re back -- taking on Doritos by crashing the biggest sporting event in the US again!
Last year, we made a video that looks suspiciously like one that could be in the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl marketing campaign -- where budding filmmakers are pitted against each other to create the most Doritos-y commercial to be aired during the biggest sports event in the United States.
Our video demanded that Doritos and its parent company PepsiCo adopt a responsible deforestation-free palm oil policy, and it racked up a whopping 25 million views.
It worked! PepsiCo came out with a new palm oil policy at the end of last year! But it still contains massive loopholes -- that’s why our fight isn’t over yet.
As the main sponsor of the Super Bowl, all eyes are going to be on PepsiCo. And that means it is especially vulnerable to pressure from us. If all of us share this video right now, we can make this video go viral and force PepsiCo to act.
Can you help us reach 50 million views -- and force PepsiCo to act? Share this video now.
Under PepsiCo’s new policy, the rainforest will still be destroyed, endangered species like the Sumatran tiger and orangutan will still suffer, and workers -- many of them children -- will still be exploited.
This is because the policy does not cover PepsiCo’s business partner in Indonesia, Indofood, which produces all of PepsiCo’s products in South-East Asia.
We know that pressuring PepsiCo works. Our video made waves -- it got more than three times the views of the ten official finalists in the Crash the Superbowl competition -- combined. It forced PepsiCo onto the defensive -- and that’s why we have to do it again.
PepsiCo’s palm oil policy is disappointing, but we can push the snack food giant to go the whole way and use only conflict-free palm oil. The SumOfUs community has already been instrumental in transforming the palm oil industry -- we’ve made McDonald’s and Yum! Brands (owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell) commit to zero-deforestation policies.
Now let’s make PepsiCo do the right thing.
Share this powerful video with your friends now.
Thanks for all that you do,
Carys, Kat, Sondhya, Hanna, and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
Crash the Super Bowl, Doritos
New Palm Oil Commitment, New Loopholes, From PepsiCo, Rainforest Action Network, 21 September 2015
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