thanks for the link !
Here is a website that shows all products made by Coca Cola. The list is staggering.
[QUOTE=bayou_bengal;6411989]
https://www.facebook.com/BoycottCocaColaAug22Sept1?skip_nax_wizard=true
Take the pledge NOT to use or drink ANY Coca-Cola products from August 22 through September 1 because Coca-Cola has replaced Pepsi and the official beverage supplier and sponsor of The celebration.
Please <like> the page linked above, and take the pledge to let Coca-Cola know you do not approve of their sponsorship of this show patronized by known violators of the HPA of 1970.
Do it for the Walking Horses. Thank you.[/QUOTE]
Done!
I liked your FB page (as the fourth person). 
https://www.facebook.com/BoycottCocaColaAug22Sept1?skip_nax_wizard=true
Coke products include:
A&W Rootbeer; Dasani water; Bacardi mixers; Canada Dry; Crystal; Crush; Dr. Pepper; Dannon; Eva water; Fanta; Fresca; Frutopia; Glaceau Smartwater & Vitamin Water; Godiva; Gold Peak; Hi-C; Honest Tea; Inca Kola; Just Juice; Juan Valdez; Mello Yello; Minute Maid; Mr. Pibb; Nestea; Oasis; Odwalla; Poms; Powerade; Schweppes; Splash; Sprite; Tropical; and Wink.
This is a PARTIAL list!
Earlier in this thread, someone recommended a book called, From The Horse’s Mouth, by Eugene Davis. I ordered it and am currently reading it. Not the best-written book, but it does detail the situation thoroughly.
I’d love to go to the celebration wearing one of these, but, my car would probably end up with a mysteriously flat tire, if nothing worse. :eek: (From what I’ve heard about the BigLickers/Dixie mafia, not through personal knowledge, for the sake of clarity.) :uhoh:
http://www.zazzle.com/your_horse_is_anti_big_lick_shirt-235360016349995805?rf=238969727029590657
:sigh:
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It might be more helpful if those of you spouting opinions about the locals bought a clue.
Franklin hasn’t been a TWH hotbed for years and years. Franklin is now suburbia and to the average Franklinite TWHs are not even on the radar screen much less “supported.” The few farms left the outside the city limits but that may have Franklin addresses are by and large hunters, eventers, dressage, with the occassional polo and western pleasure, etc. TWHs are historically low rent and I assure you the land prices around here (north of $30K an acre) have cleared the vast majority of TWHs out of the Franklin area.
Carry on…[/QUOTE]
And just how many years has your family lived in or around Franklin, sweetie?
Because . . . HISTORICALLY Franklin has long be associated with the “modern Tennessee Walking Horse”… It says so courtsey of the City of Franklin itself right on the link below–
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
That product list is pretty long. Guess I’ll have to stick to tap water and beer!
We are hoping to get as many people as possible to like the Boycott Coca-Cola facebook page and then we are going to share it on the Coca-Cola facebook page. Come one-- we NEED <Likes>
https://www.facebook.com/#!/BoycottCocaColaAug22Sept1
Thanks
that link didnt work for me. try this one
https://www.facebook.com/BoycottCoca...ax_wizard=true#!/BoycottCocaColaAug22Sept1
SUBK
you are right there are other horse businesses in Franklin,like Brownland just to name one.
Heres the Question to you and to Brownland what and how have you addressed the abuse of the Tennessee Walking horse? by having a different discipline,sorry its still in the horse business, as a horse person i have a responsibilty to stand- up. i believe all horse caring people need to help stop this ABUSE. jmo and SHAME on those that DONT
if every horse person in Tn stood -up wrote the Governor,to stamp out the STACKS and PACKAGES,that the AAEP and the AVMA along with the American Farrier Journal,SAY ARE ABUSIVE.
http://cs.thehorse.com/blogs/horses-and-the-law/archive/2012/06/05/Investigative-Timeline.aspx
This is just to express gratitude for the undercover work, not re-open a hate fest of the Humane Society of the United States.
[QUOTE=subk;6411996]
It might be more helpful if those of you spouting opinions about the locals bought a clue.
Franklin hasn’t been a TWH hotbed for years and years. Franklin is now suburbia and to the average Franklinite TWHs are not even on the radar screen much less “supported.” The few farms left the outside the city limits but that may have Franklin addresses are by and large hunters, eventers, dressage, with the occassional polo and western pleasure, etc. TWHs are historically low rent and I assure you the land prices around here (north of $30K an acre) have cleared the vast majority of TWHs out of the Franklin area.
Carry on…[/QUOTE]
We will “carry on.” You can bet your sweet A$$! :yes:
subk- I don’t know what horse discipline you follow or breed you promote, and frankly my dear I don’t give a d*mn.
For you to come on a thread that is concerned with preserving the Tennessee Walking Horse and protecting the breed from further abuse to DENY the importance of the TWH breed to the Franklin, TN area AND dismiss the entire breed as being “low rent” just shows how ignorant and out of touch you are with the history of Franklin, TN.
Today the City of Franklin is holding a Fourth of July Celebration at-- HARLINSDALE FARM PARK-- it’s on the National Register of Historic places, too.
FYI-- Midnight Sun, one of the greatest sires in the TWH breed is buried right there on the Harlinsdale Farm. The Harlinsdale Farm has a FRANKLIN, TN address, and has had one since 1933. Harlinsdale Farm, in its time has produced many famous TWHs.
In fact, on the official City of Franklin website, the ONLY breed of horse mentioned anywhere that I could find is the TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE.
I have never lived in Franklin, but I first visited the area in the 1960s-- just to go to Harlinsdale Farm to see the famous TWHs there. Again, honey, just how long have you lived in Franklin?
[QUOTE=Rudy;6404121]
Trying to kill the show for everyone who competes because you don’t agree with padded horse aspect of it…great.[/QUOTE]
Yep. High time The Celebration got enlightened along with the rest of the world. No reason there can’t be a New, Improved, Pain-free Celebration.
[QUOTE=bayou_bengal;6414005]
subk- I don’t know what horse discipline you follow or breed you promote, and frankly my dear I don’t give a d*mn.
For you to come on a thread that is concerned with preserving the Tennessee Walking Horse and protecting the breed from further abuse to DENY the importance of the TWH breed to the Franklin, TN area AND dismiss the entire breed as being “low rent” just shows how ignorant and out of touch you are with the history of Franklin, TN.
Today the City of Franklin is holding a Fourth of July Celebration at-- HARLINSDALE FARM PARK-- it’s on the National Register of Historic places, too.
FYI-- Midnight Sun, one of the greatest sires in the TWH breed is buried right there on the Harlinsdale Farm. The Harlinsdale Farm has a FRANKLIN, TN address, and has had one since 1933. Harlinsdale Farm, in its time has produced many famous TWHs.
In fact, on the official City of Franklin website, the ONLY breed of horse mentioned anywhere that I could find is the TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE.
I have never lived in Franklin, but I first visited the area in the 1960s-- just to go to Harlinsdale Farm to see the famous TWHs there. Again, honey, just how long have you lived in Franklin?[/QUOTE]
What you are posting has no relevance to what the other posted stated. They said Franklin NOW…year 2012…PRESENT TIME…is NOT a major home to the TWH.
The fact that you have not been there since 1960 reduces your credibility compared to that of a poster who lives there NOW.
A lot does and can change in 50 years.
I phoned friends who reside just outside of Franklin and they show dogs. They said it is a hub for hunters, jumpers, dressage, there is a polo field somewhere around that area etc.
These are horses that reguarly sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars inspite of the economy.
The TWH is considered to be a modestly priced family mount. I know the BL have escalated their prices but the breed overall is not considered to be expensive.
Perhaps the poster was a tad harsh with low rent, but that is also the way the hunter/jumper crowd think of all of us…I live only a couple of hours from Spruce Meadows and the international horse community not only don’t care about TWH’s, Arabs, ASB’s QH’s, etc they don’t even think about them.
DUH – Your reading comprehension really does suck, Fairfax and I am tired of you jumping on almost every post I make.
I said I visited Franklin for the FIRST time in the 1960s-- FIRST TIME-- and certainly NOT the LAST time. In fact, I was there just last year, not that it is any of your business.
I have friends in and around Franklin, too-- people I have known for 50 years-- some, whose families have lived there before 1900 and still live there. They assure me that there are still plenty of TWH breeders and owners in and around Franklin.
The TWH is VERY popular as a family horse-- and there is nothing “low rent” about being being a good all around family horse.
I, for one, have never looked at the “worth” of a horse SOLELY in dollars and cents-- like apparently some people on this site and some of the people you know DO. And to tell you the truth-- I wouldn’t give you a plugged nickel for any of those hunter/ jumpers, polo ponies or race horses because I am NOT interested in those equine pursuits. I know about these horses and other breeds as well, because I am an EDUCATED horse person, but I am not interested in owning one.
I, have, however, found in many cases the people who think of horses only in terms of how EXPENSIVE they were to purchase and keep are among the most shallow people around.
[QUOTE=CFFarm;6414027]
Yep. High time The Celebration got enlightened along with the rest of the world. No reason there can’t be a New, Improved, Pain-free Celebration.[/QUOTE]
<LIKE>:):yes:
[QUOTE=walknsound;6413874]
http://cs.thehorse.com/blogs/horses-and-the-law/archive/2012/06/05/Investigative-Timeline.aspx
This is just to express gratitude for the undercover work, not re-open a hate fest of the Humane Society of the United States.[/QUOTE]
I agree. Undercover, covert stuff and $10,000 rewards are the only way to uncover this stuff. The only way to stop it is to ban the stacks and chains. Need to get some limits on the shoe weights, too. My hope is that banning the bands that hold them on should be given consideration.
I’ve had a life-long love affair with Coca Cola just as Roy Exum stated. Even as a kid I’d get a nickel and go buy a cold one, as soft drinks weren’t kept in our home fridge back then. But when I grew up, Coke has always been on hand.
But now it’s time for the big corporations to clean up their act–by not supporting abuse. I’ll drink tap water and wine (yes!) gladly as my “low-rent” mare (not a TWH) and I stand up for the Tennessee Walker.
BTW–I first saw Big Lick horses as a kid at the Washington International Horse Show–thought it was very weird.
Writing letters, posting on FB and web sites, posting here–done it–nothing’s too much trouble for the chance to finally end the abuse of the TWH.
[QUOTE=bayou_bengal;6414190]
DUH – Your reading comprehension really does suck, Fairfax and I am tired of you jumping on almost every post I make.
I said I visited Franklin for the FIRST time in the 1960s-- FIRST TIME-- and certainly NOT the LAST time. In fact, I was there just last year, not that it is any of your business.
I have friends in and around Franklin, too-- people I have known for 50 years-- some, whose families have lived there before 1900 and still live there. They assure me that there are still plenty of TWH breeders and owners in and around Franklin.
The TWH is VERY popular as a family horse-- and there is nothing “low rent” about being being a good all around family horse.
I, for one, have never looked at the “worth” of a horse SOLELY in dollars and cents-- like apparently some people on this site and some of the people you know DO. And to tell you the truth-- I wouldn’t give you a plugged nickel for any of those hunter/ jumpers, polo ponies or race horses because I am NOT interested in those equine pursuits. I know about these horses and other breeds as well, because I am an EDUCATED horse person, but I am not interested in owning one.
I, have, however, found in many cases the people who think of horses only in terms of how EXPENSIVE they were to purchase and keep are among the most shallow people around.[/QUOTE]
Standing ovation!!!
[QUOTE=bayou_bengal;6410993]
Boycott Coca-Cola—
How about we all pledge not to drink ANY Coca-Cola products between August 22 and September 1 AND we call write and email Coke corporate to tell them so?[/QUOTE]
I’ve been drinking Pepsi since the news came out much as it pains me as I’ve always, always been a Coke drinker. I’m getting used to it now and if Coca Cola doesn’t pull their sponsorship it will be a permanent switch.
I don’t condone soring.
Clean up the event.
Scaring sponsors away from equestrian events is not the way to go. Some find some practices used dressage and western disciplines to be offensive. There are those that don’t like rodeos.
There is the danger that Corporate America will stay away from ALL equine events because of boycotts.
We don’t drink Coke or Pepsi. We use a Soda Stream and the bottles are all reusable. That said COKE & PEPSI holdings are more then just drinking their soda products. I am not sure how big an impact the boycott will really have.
I think this boycott is just a feel good thing for a few, so they can say they did something.
