Slide Show: Got Koch? Seven Products Fueling the Brothers' Right-Wing Agenda

[Lunabelle]

Here's a pictorial of what NOT to buy. I'm a "Charmin" gal myself.




http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/160881/slide-show-got-koch-seven-products-fueling-brothers-right-wing-agenda

[valerief]

1. Whew! Glad I'm a Scotts gal. And Earth First (Royal Paper). They're probably just as bad, though. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. Remember to check the "no name" products for GA Pacific origins...

Because even if you buy the store brand, it might be produced by Koch owned- GP.

[Generic Other]

3. keeping " your privates safe from public machinations..."

While most of Koch Industries revolves around energy and gas—including pipelines in Texas and Oklahoma, and refineries in Mississippi—it also owns the Georgia-Pacific paper company, which makes a bevy of popular products, like the following:

Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity Fair napkins
Zee napkins

Those who are adamantly against the Koch brothers and their politics could, of course, show their disdain by avoiding these products, but that doesn’t mean your privates will still be safe from public machinations.

The nation’s other largest paper company, Kimberly-Clark, which produces Kleenex, Kotex, Cottonelle, Depends and Scott paper towel, to name a few, is run by a man named Thomas Falk.

Falk has previously donated to John Cornyn, the Republican Senator who once likened same-sex marriage to tying the knot with a box turtle, regularly assails a woman’s right to choose and in 2005 voted against increased funding for armored vehicles for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/55120/the-koch-brothers-may-be-in-your-house-right-now/

Guess we should use pages out of the Sears catalog.

[7wo7rees]

7. Or Foreign Affairs magazine.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68201/melvyn-p-leffler/september-11-in-retrospect

[AndyTiedye]

4. Lycra® and Coolmax®

There are no alternatives because they are patented and Koch owns the patents.

[SalviaBlue]

5. I think it would be almost impossible to not use any Koch

related products. However, I have stopped using all of these paper products since I learned they were Koch companies.

With all of the building products and the Lycra, etc. they have their tentacles into products that would be hard to purge from our lives.

[The Wielding Truth]

6. Thanks. I have bought these products . The price was low. Now I

shop at Aldi's and by their brands. They are cheaper and the quality is good.

[Mnemosyne]

8. K&R...