NEWS
Coffee chain Starbucks has come under attack from a San Diego based Christian group after it changed it’s logo from an innocent mermaid, to a more graphic bare-chested, open-legged mermaid.
The group, called the Resistance, has called on it’s 3,000 members to boycott the coffee chain.
Mark Dice, founder of the Resistance said: ‘The Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute…The company might as well call itself Slutbucks.’
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