Avoid the Koch? Monsant NO! - There's an app for that

[ashling]

this has probably been posted or at least is not news to you tech savy DU Gooders, but its new to me

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

The app itself is the work of one Los Angeles-based 26-year-old freelance programmer, Ivan Pardo, who has devoted the last 16 months to Buycott. “It’s been completely bootstrapped up to this point,” he said. Martinez and another friend have pitched in to promote the app.

Pardo’s handiwork is available for download on iPhone or Android, making its debut in iTunes and Google GOOG +1.09% Play in early May. You can scan the barcode on any product and the free app will trace its ownership all the way to its top corporate parent company, including conglomerates like Koch Industries.

Once you’ve scanned an item, Buycott will show you its corporate family tree on your phone screen. Scan a box of Splenda sweetener, for instance, and you’ll see its parent, McNeil Nutritionals, is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson JNJ +1.3%.

Even more impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott business practices that violate your principles rather than single companies. One of these campaigns, Demand GMO Labeling, will scan your box of cereal and tell you if it was made by one of the 36 corporations that donated more than $150,000 to oppose the mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/05/14/new-app-lets-you-boycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-more-by-scanning-your-shopping-cart/

[Berlum]

1. One small step toward Corporations with a Conscience

Thank you, Ivan P.

[hlthe2b]

2. DUers should download to support.. It is buggy, but it will get better if enough show interest.

Right now, you can only use it to scan bar codes, rather than look up products. I think that will change quickly if it gets boosted to one of itunes' (and android's) most popular downloads.


Give it a little love. It is FREE.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. They need a name

or link to the app.

[hlthe2b]

4. It is called BUYCOTT... Here's the itunes link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/buycott/id585933440?mt=8

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. thanks

I must be obtuse when I read the Forbes article and not see that.

[G_j]

6. actually it's BUYCOTT. nt

[hlthe2b]

7. Yes, sorry... I found it by searching for Boycott, but it is BUYCOTT... corrected

with itunes link