San Francisco, California – Barangay, the socio-political organization of Filipino American LGBTs in the San Francisco Bay Area, has joined the worldwide boycott of Barilla pasta and other products.
Gay rights activists have launched a boycott of the world’s leading pasta maker after its chairman said he would only portray the “classic family” in his advertisements and, if people objected to that, they should feel free to eat a different kind of pasta.
Guido Barilla, who controls the fourth-generation Barilla Group family business with his two brothers, sparked outrage among activists, consumers and some politicians when he said he would not consider using a gay family to advertise Barilla pasta.
Barangay is taking the boycott a step farther. The group will stage a cookout and bake sale at the corner of Castro and 18th streets in San Francisco for the entire week preceding the Castro Street Fair. Organization members and supporters will not only be distributing fliers urging the consuming public to boycott all Barilla products, but will be selling home-cooked pancit (noodles) and home-baked pan de sal (salted breakfast rolls) . “This is a great opportunity for us to showcase our delicious noodle dishes which are a perfect substitute for Barilla pasta,” organizers said.
Different types of Filipino noodle dishes will be showcased at the planned cookout sale, ranging from Pancit Bihon to Pancit Canton, from Pancit Palabok to Pancit Sotanghon, and many other noodle-based dishes.
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So buy another brand of pasta. It’s the owner’s choice how to advertise his products, and it’s your choice not to buy his pasta. end of story. Yawnnnn.
Here’s the thing, why not go after Coca Cola and have them do gay family advertisements, surely that would make a greater impact don’t you think? And why stop there? How about targeting all products that do not have gay family ads? Why not make it mandatory for all ads to have gay family ads? Hmm, I’m on a roll here, how about all those other minorities, where are the native american family ads, the latino family ads, the african-american family adds? war veterans family ads, the muslim family ads, jews family ads, don’t forget the spinster cat lady family ads too. My preference would be if they have more of bestiality family ads, this gives me the idea to also do a similar protest. yes, let’s do it!
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Do you think those other minorities you’ve mentioned have it worse than gay people? If yes, then continue buying their pasta. Maybe they’ll use the money to fund some homophobic advertisement that I’m sure you’ll love!
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