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Herbalife, a company that sells vitamins and other health supplements through independent distributors, many of whom are lower-income Latinos or African-America
by unsigner 13y ago
Herbalife, a company that sells vitamins and other health supplements through independent distributors, many of whom are lower-income Latinos or African-Americans.
That's one way to put it, yes.
- Maascamp 13y agoWhat's another way?
- bertil 13y agoI’m guessing challenging the health benefits brought by their products, or the scientific background of their users and comparing the overall business model to… say snakes marinated in oil.
- girvo 13y agoPyramid scheme selling entirely unproven crap.
- MaysonL 13y agoThe same could be said of any religious organization, and sometimes is, with about as much validity (i.e.: somewhere between a little and a lot).
- Pxtl 13y agoHow does Herbalife differ from Amway or Cutco or any other direct-marketing company? Snake-oil seems to be the modus-operandi of that marketing channel. I mean, if you're going to talk about the suspicious benefits of herbal health supplements, let's look at the beauty-product industry too.
- wpietri 13y agoI think that demanding that people look at every wrong thing at once mainly acts to reduce the amount of effective action against wrongness.