Conservative group launches anti-ESG text service that helps shoppers identify products made by woke companies A conservative group has launched a new alert system that helps grocery shoppers spot products peddled by corporate behemoths that have a hand in the advancement of the left's woke agenda.
While those championing the service suggest it will "help consumers make better-informed decisions," leftists claim this anti-ESG technology is regressive.
Every purchase a battle won or lost
According to the New York Times, consumer rights activist Fredrick J. Schlink co-founded the Consumer's Club with Stuart Chase with the aim of protecting the consumer "by publicizing defective and unsafe products." They incorporated this club as the nonprofit Consumers' Research Inc. in 1931, making it America's first independent organization to test consumer products and report on them by brand name.
When Schlink stood firm against the demands of suspected communist labor unions in the mid-30s, strikers left Consumers' Research and founded the competing Consumers Union, which published Consumer Reports.
Despite this schism, the original organization persisted.
Will Hild, who previously worked with the Federalist Society and other conservative organizations, became the executive director of Consumers' Research in 2020, then championed the launch of the Consumers First Initiative the following year, seeking to put "corporations on notice that they need to start serving their customers, not woke politicians."
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Consumers' Research has since sought to fight environmental, social, and governance initiatives, noting that ESG is wielded by political activists and their ideological allies in the business community to "drive a progressive agenda ... through economic coercion and ignoring democratic processes.".......
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