Based on what? Your opinion? Something other than company literature?
No, based on every article that's ever been published by a reputable source and that wasn't affiliated with the company -- and there are many...like Newsweek, Forbes, the FDA, etc:
http://www.mensjournal.com/superjuices-on-trial
http://www.newsweek.com/id/150499/page/1
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/health/content/accent/epaper/2008/07/16/a3d_susman_0716.html
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0811/050.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jonny-bowden/new-rules-no-more-claimin_b_106562.html
http://www.cnbc.com/id/30887734/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=latin_america
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400351/Thumbs-Down-on-MonaVie.html
The rest of us are missing some data here and you simply appear bitter and angry. Were you ripped off by them? What's your deal?
I resent the tactics that you are using in this discussion. First, you try to shift the argument to McDonalds, the Pharma industry, and religion, and now you are asking irrelevant questions about bitterness and anger. I am merely stating the obvious; I agree with the author of this article and with what has been written in the critiques of Monavie listed above.
Don't shoot the messenger just because you can't combat the message. Monavie stinks -- and I might feel sorry for you for having to stoop so low as to sell this sludge, but your attitude and reflexive denials prevent me from doing so.
You can't really make that statement based on what the company actually says...
The "company" isn't in the field marketing the product to customers; it is the distributors who do that, and they often misrepresent the composition of the product, overstate its nutritional value, and claim (illegally) that Monavie cures and treats diseases. The company has a convenient business model whereby they can attempt to deny responsibility even though consumers are being ripped off and lied to by distributors of the products.
And since there are SO MANY questionable nutritional products - SO MANY overhyped and under "facted" potions and pills - it's fair to ask why this has to be specifically about MonaVie?
Monavie isn't a "nutritional product" -- it's fruit juice -- and at $45 a bottle, it's an obvious ripoff. Maybe it's only one of many ripoffs, but it's still a RIPOFF.
If they are really fraudulent make your complaint with the FTC (they shut down plenty of vitamin scams) and your states Attorney General even the FDA.
Good idea. I see that a complaint against Monavie was filed already filed by the FDA in 2007. Maybe it's time for another.
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/EnforcementActivitiesbyFDA/CyberLetters/ucm056937.pdf
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Based on what? Your opinion? Something other than company literature?
No, based on every article that's ever been published by a reputable source and that wasn't affiliated with the company -- and there are many...like Newsweek, Forbes, the FDA, etc:
http://www.mensjournal.com/superjuices-on-trial
http://www.newsweek.com/id/150499/page/1
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/health/content/accent/epaper/2008/07/16/a3d_susman_0716.html
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0811/050.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jonny-bowden/new-rules-no-more-claimin_b_106562.html
http://www.cnbc.com/id/30887734/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=latin_america
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400351/Thumbs-Down-on-MonaVie.html
The rest of us are missing some data here and you simply appear bitter and angry. Were you ripped off by them? What's your deal?
I resent the tactics that you are using in this discussion. First, you try to shift the argument to McDonalds, the Pharma industry, and religion, and now you are asking irrelevant questions about bitterness and anger. I am merely stating the obvious; I agree with the author of this article and with what has been written in the critiques of Monavie listed above.
Don't shoot the messenger just because you can't combat the message. Monavie stinks -- and I might feel sorry for you for having to stoop so low as to sell this sludge, but your attitude and reflexive denials prevent me from doing so.
You can't really make that statement based on what the company actually says...
The "company" isn't in the field marketing the product to customers; it is the distributors who do that, and they often misrepresent the composition of the product, overstate its nutritional value, and claim (illegally) that Monavie cures and treats diseases. The company has a convenient business model whereby they can attempt to deny responsibility even though consumers are being ripped off and lied to by distributors of the products.
And since there are SO MANY questionable nutritional products - SO MANY overhyped and under "facted" potions and pills - it's fair to ask why this has to be specifically about MonaVie?
Monavie isn't a "nutritional product" -- it's fruit juice -- and at $45 a bottle, it's an obvious ripoff. Maybe it's only one of many ripoffs, but it's still a RIPOFF.
If they are really fraudulent make your complaint with the FTC (they shut down plenty of vitamin scams) and your states Attorney General even the FDA.
Good idea. I see that a complaint against Monavie was filed already filed by the FDA in 2007. Maybe it's time for another.
June 10, 2009 - 6:07pmhttp://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/EnforcementActivitiesbyFDA/CyberLetters/ucm056937.pdf
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