Swedish diary producer Arla stops sales of Kefir; fully produced in Sweden

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11 points·yessirwhatever··5 comments

Some people are saying that the decision for the ban is to avoid the Moscow logo on the cover.

This is entirely ridiculous and tolerating it is outrageous. You can hate/boycot Russian government. But boycotting Russian culture is insanely dangerous to be tolerated.

The Swedish text in the image says it's what the producers (Arla) are also saying. Yeah, it's supremely moronic, what is going on? Are customers really boycotting them because of the images? Has there been social media outrage? (which is usually a few loud voices that sometimes should be ignored?) Is it PR-scared people in the company expecting a boycott or an outrage?

I really hope it's just some moronic PR people and not a significant part of society who are that dumb.

Ridiculous. They were never very honest either. They say their butter contains a 40% blend of palm tree and shea oil but that the exact amounts is a "trade secret", because they know if they printed the fact that it's 35% palm tree oil then people would stop buying it.

I thought that only Bulgarian producers have been doing these dirty tricks - I've seen brands having up to 70% of palm oil! I don't know how is this even allowed - to abuse the meaning of "butter"! Call it something else and put whatever you wish in it, but often people buy assuming what butter actually means and dont' read the ingredients.

This is beyond pathetic! Now there's no doubt that our brains have been shrinking!

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