Opinion: If your brand or product name uses any Animal, you have a moral obligation to donate a % of profits to protect it

[KngT]

Animal, Bird, Fish, Insect whatever. Especially more so if it's an endangered species being threatened by human activity. Plus, it just makes good PR, even if companies are considered inherently ammoral

You make Gorilla Glue? Gorilla Glass? Donate to https://gorillafund.org/ so your product is not named after an extinct species in the future

"What if my product is named after something extinct?"
Donate to the closest modern relative, TRX? protect birds

"What if the species is not endangered or threatened?"
Maybe still donate to protect its habitat so it doesn't get on the list?

Can extend to trees and places as well. Hot take? maybe, but I think this is a win-win for all.

[MisterButtercup]

@KngT 100% Solid take.

[HammerheadFistpunch]

@KngT What if I make a Jeep Cherokee or Grand Cherokee, should I just keep doing it without acknowledging tribal rights and requests?

[ibRAD]

@KngT

Sounds like it might be a conflict of interest in some cases.

[KngT]

@ibRAD or is it?

[Otto]

@KngT What if you're making roach-killing insecticide?

[KngT]

@Otto LOL I expected a few "But what about?" comments like these including the same one made before you. Nobody is naming these brands or products to signify prestige or highlight some positive quality about the species or specific creature. They are named after the humans-designated "vermin" the product or brand is supposed to eliminate.

To counter this argument, these companies can still make products to kill invasive pests while donating to conservation efforts to help other insects and small mammals to compare Roaches and Rats for example

[foghat1981]

Well this could get complicated

[Otto]

@KngT Well, good enough for me. I'm just throwing curveballs for the sake of a fun argument lol, I do agree with your post

[derp]

Pretty solid take tbh.

[KngT]

@foghat1981 That company must step up to protect the last remaining majestic Griffin!

Where there's lightning there's Thunder ️
Older Female looking for young mate️
Falcon-Bird ️

[VeeArrrSix]

@KngT

VW has got you, fam.

[dogisbadob]

hopefully there's no brand or product called Lanternfly

[Nicky Chagrin Janitor of SHIELD]

@KngT I fully support the idea of Ford and Yeti donating to protect the sasquatch and its Himalayan cousin. It will be a sad day if these noble creatures vanish from the earth.

[facw]

@Nicky-Chagrin-Janitor-of-SHIELD Look, you know those creatures aren't real. So the funding should go to make them real! We have the technology!

[KngT]

@facw If we're doing that I vote for ManBearPig first, way more interesting than those two guys in a fur suits walking barefoot in the woods/mountains

[A Former User]

@KngT said in Opinion: If your brand or product name uses any Animal, you have a moral obligation to donate a % of profits to protect it:

@foghat1981 That company must step up to protect the last remaining majestic Griffin!

So Vauxhall should pay to create a Griffin to fund to keep alive?

[Mark Tucker]

@facw Yes! And then we can write songs about them:

"Bitchin' chimaera! Bitchin' chimaera!
Body and head don't match,
Bitchin' chimaera! Bitchin' chimaera!
Way too fast to catch!"

...or something.

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

Seems like a no-brainer from a marketing point of view.