How To Get Rid of Apeel

My last blog post and video about Apeel said that I believe they will fail as a company because (a) their product doesn’t actually work, and (b) because of public pushback.

I have some updates for you:

That public pushback is where YOU come in. Please talk to the general produce employee where you shop. Whoever is walking around stocking produce.

And get the name and number of the manager. Talk to each and every person in the produce department you encounter, about Apeel.

Expect to have to educate them that it is a toxic preservative sprayed on produce by some companies, that is marketed as “plant-based”--but in fact, several heavy metals and petrochemicals are involved, according to their own FDA filing.

You may want to watch this video a second time, maybe write down “heavy metals and petrochemical solvents” in your phone, so that’s in your vocabulary and ready to go, when you talk to these people.

Tell them, “Don’t take my word for it, the Apeel company’s filing with the FDA is where I got this information about 5 heavy metals and 2 solvents involved in making the product with a little throwaway pulp from some plant, to be able to sell it as ‘plant-based.’”

This is what the word “greenwashing” means:

Call your toxic chemical product “plant-based” because there’s a little grapeseed mush that maybe grape juice companies sold you.

(Because otherwise they’d have to pay to send it away—so they sell it to other companies to put it in pills and sell it to you as a supplement with sexy marketing about what it’ll do for your health…

…OR they sell it to Apeel to pretend the Apeel preservative is “just plants protecting plants!” That’s what James Rogers told Dr. Mark Hyman is what Apeel is.)

Their own logic makes no sense. If they’re spraying it on apples and lemons and limes, which appears to be the only place Apeel is getting any traction at all--I do not believe it’s on your berries—

--don’t apples and lemons and limes ALREADY have a peel on them, from nature, to protect them from spoilage?

Remember, the VP of Produce at Costco told me that they aren’t selling anything with Apeel on it anymore.

I’ll give him another call today, as it’s been a few months, but even though I pressed him for any chance to say that public pressure was a factor, he insisted that the reason they stopped carrying Apeel-spraying brands is that it adds cost.

Maybe you should give him a call, too! I hope you will be polite—you catch more flies with honey than vinegar! Costco Produce VP Bob Huskey: 253-217-6142.

Let me reiterate how important it is for each of us to talk to produce employees and managers. You may have to call the produce manager a few times, to get through, and to follow up.

You may find him or her to feign ignorance, or actually BE ignorant, about Apeel.

You guys have sent GreenSmoothieGirl a lot of the responses you get, and I want to thank you, because we need the GreenSmoothieGirl army to be the resistance.

So that we don’t feed our kids and grandkids food coated with toxic synthetic chemicals we can neither see, nor wash off.

One of you told us last week that you wrote Apeel, and the customer support rep who wrote you back said that their preservative DOES wash off the fruit.

This is completely opposite of what Apeel was telling customers LAST year. So, I don’t trust their statements, and my next post (and video) about what they’re saying about their product, plus some corporate restructuring, will blow your mind.

My next post and video will be about an announcement Apeel has made to the media.

I think you’ll find it very interesting. Thanks for staying tuned and thanks for anything and everything you do to personally be a part of the resistance against this product on our food.

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