Innocent drinks

Keeping everything crossed that major gin brands do not follow Innocent’s lead
Bladnoch distillery take note, I will not buy from you if you go woke, and for certain no more innocent drinks ever for me. I'm the only one who drinks them.
I wont starve

but it seemed to me in general that the tone was those who were in support of innocent were.... (I'm going to leave it there as I would very much like to add but won't )

Yes. The semi literate, childish nastiness and overt, gleeful gynephobia is so very, very common on these twitter threads. It was one of the things that first really convinced me when I first began to question and have concerns; you rarely to never see an intelligent, civil, well written, rational response putting the activist/lobby view.

Right. Arla stuff for the family then.

What did John Lewis do?!

To balance the scales somewhat, Arla refused to follow the "advice" of a tra. They are also a collective of smaller producers, so definitely a name for the "good company" column if looking for milk / dairy stuff.

(I've NC this week, but have been around for a while.)

Yes it is very much "serves her right" rather than, well, anything at all about the issue, such as it is.

I found the Tweets in support of innocent interesting.

All of them that I saw were all ‘yay. Glad u hate transphobes too. I’ll buy your products ‘.

Not one that i saw from the anime avatar brigade was anything along the lines of ’i don’t agree with her and I don’t like her opinions but bullying isn’t cool‘

Im struggled to articulate this, but it seemed to me in general that the tone was those who were in support of innocent were far more gleeful that a woman got bullied rather that grateful

Contrary to what a PP implied, I, like I suspect the majority here, boycott companies for not supporting women’s rights and for bullying women. I also boycott companies for racism and ableism and would boycott companies if they were bullying any trans people. Amongst the many vile and unfunny jokes I detest Frankie Boyle for are his jokes about transwomen a few years ago as they were violent and dehumanising. I do not boycott a company for supporting trans people.

It sounds like that PP assumes trans support always removes women’s rights

Well i just told ds (with asd) why I won't be buying him anymore innocent smoothies he says he likes my homemade ones better. He's currently adding them to the bad company list

What did John Lewis do? (Not sure I want to know).

Innocent were bought out by Coca-Cola.

www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/us/our-owner

Despite the folksy image and their protestations, just another multinational moneyspinner.

Patronising fuckers.

Why on earth do businesses do this? Did innocent even bother checking? Co-op back tracked pretty quickly and wasn't it Yorkshire Tea who deflected with great humour

I don't think they do. When a company becomes such a big brand It is, as someone says above, left to the social media team to deal with such issues. It is pretty similar scenario here on Mumsnet. Moderation is report led, and the action/non action taken really does depend which moderator is on duty.

Innocent makes company decisions based on the opinions of some random who can’t distinguish the difference between to and too

I suspect in most cases it isn't the board or director of these companies who ratifies these posts. It is some random staffer.

We're just selling margarine.

I think that was Cravendale manufacturer Arla's take on things...we just make dairy products, nobody died from them taking a neutral stance.

John Lewis shot themselves in both feet. They used to be our preferred supplier of white goods. They are down a fridge freezer and two freezers.

Innocent wasn't on our buy list but flora was a possible.

Long memory and I hold a grudge really well.

I'm not even gender critical but their actions have lost me as a customer.

There's something about their pious little haloed logo attached to their tweet which is quite irritating. Even at the best of times, there's nothing saintly about a smoothie - much healthier to just eat fruit.

I'm so glad I swithered about which one to get at lunchtime today and didn't pick Innocent. That's them boycotted now.

Why on earth do businesses do this? Did innocent even bother checking?
Co-op back tracked pretty quickly and wasn't it Yorkshire Tea who deflected with great humour.

I know it can be difficult ❤️

Yes it's better to eat fruit. Yes smoothies are high sugar. But smoothies are an at-least-they're-getting-some-fruit-veg when my son only otherwise eats dry beige carbs. And occasionally peeled apple cut in a specific way. Not the point of the thread but just to say its not always as easy as just eat fruit

I'm with you in this tbh. Plus blended fruit loses most of its fibre. Better just to eat fruit.

I wouldn't eat Flora if you paid me, yeuch. Butter all the way here, we get through several packs a week (and no chance of starving )

Will find an Innocent alternative now, thanks for the Morrisons tip x

I hope Maggie reports it as a non crime hate incident. Innocent? More like guilty - of twattery..