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by smolder 2524 days ago
Yeah, a good example of this is Pepsi pledging to remove Brominated Vegetable Oil from their drinks in response to a campaign by a young student that caught media attention. Years later, they never did any such thing.
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Which really makes no sense when you think about it because it's already illegal in Europe and Japan so might as well just remove it altogether.
It all depends on the monetary difference doing so makes. If it's significantly cheaper, then they will continue to include it for legal markets.