Writing my response was fun...
HIM: “I challenge you to find another company in the Food and Beverage Industry on the same scale as PepsiCo that has the same commitment…What you will find is that no other company, has near the commitment that PepsiCo has to our consumers health.”
ME: Well I guess “healthy” and “health conscious consumer” are fairly subjective terms, so let me make my position a little clearer. We can start the “healthy” discussion around the terms whole foods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_foods) and organic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food), although many truly health conscious consumers (myself included) would want to take the discussion much further than that, to include topics like grass-fed vs. grain-fed for beef and dairy products.
Moving on…
You say, “I challenge you to find another company in the Food and Beverage Industry on the same scale as PepsiCo that has the same commitment…What you will find is that no other company, has near the commitment that PepsiCo has to our consumers health.”
First, let me point out that PepsiCo’s “scale” is irrelevant to me and to most truly health conscious consumers (many prefer local farm products). I don’t care how large the company is or how many consumers purchase PepsiCo products worldwide, I am only concerned about the quality and health benefits of the products. So, when you take “scale” out of the mix, I can name dozens of companies (off the top of my head) who are more “committed to their consumers’ health” than PepsiCo is. In fact, in my mind, it’s a pretty simple equation: the higher the percentage of the company’s products that are “healthy,” the higher that company’s commitment to consumer health. Companies who can say that 100%, 75%, or even 50% of their products are “healthy” would be, at least in my mind, more “committed to consumer health..." (read more and see the entire discussion here).
