Whyatt also recommends that consumers remove any food packaged in plastic from its packaging and place them in glass.
"This domestic ivory market confuses consumers, removes stigma about ivory consumption, provides cover for criminals to smuggle ivory, hinders law enforcement and stimulates poaching of elephants," said Grace Ge Gabriel, Asia regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
Under the guidelines, which were developed jointly with the European Forum for Responsible Drinking, member companies need to establish "age gates" before communicating with consumers, remove user-generated content that is deemed inappropriate and clearly identify brand marketing when it may be considered as editorial content, as on blogs.
For consumers, removing the middleman translates to handmade, designer-quality shoes that cost less than $300 and ship within five days.
"To Diet Pepsi consumers, removing aspartame is their No. 1 one concern," says Seth Kaufman, senior vice president of Pepsi and flavors, in a phone interview with USA Today.
Should that bill become law, a consumer who removed a watermark from a DVD or electronic book to send it over the Internet could be liable for fines up to $25,000.
Scientists believed that, with these voracious krill consumers largely removed from the sea, krill populations had rebounded, sparking a resurgence by creatures that ate krill, including chinstrap penguins.
Non-drinkers and very low alcohol consumers were removed and analysed as a separate category (referred to as non-drinkers henceforth).
"Continued buoyancy of consumer spending removes another of the arguments used by the two doves on the MPC that voted for a rate cut," said John Butler, an economist with HSBC.
When asked recently what OPEC was doing to lower oil prices, an oil minister responded that western countries could instantly lower prices to the consumer by removing the excessive high taxes on oil.
