It’s funny that you mention that. I have other comments from people in Brazil and they don’t think the berries are anything special. http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/monavie-scam-was-my-wife-recruited-sell-snake-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-81936

It sounds like the berries are the furthest thing from organic.

“Brazil is the world’s fourth largest consumer of pesticides, and the largest in Latin America. In the Brazilian Amazon, the use of pesticides in varzeas (seasonally flooded land, where fresh vegetables are produced for regional urban markets) is intensive and is perceived by local farmers as necessary for the feasibility of vegetable production in the region. Usage of pesticides in Brazilian agriculture is regulated by Federal Law No. 7.802. However, law enforcement is almost absent in some remote areas. Given the limited or poor literacy skills of Amazon farmers and widespread use of pesticides, it is expected that occupational exposure to pesticides is likely to be high, increasing the vulnerability to acute and chronic poisoning.”

Andre, your entire comment here was based on acai berries, not MonaVie juice. The two are not the same. They aren’t even remotely similar. Please don’t compare acai berries to MonaVie or apples. It makes you look ignorant.

Açai is the most popular food serving for over 95% of all Jiu Jitsu athlethes in brazil. every time you see one of this macho guys they talk about how tought they are, and thats all because they eat lots of açai. its called açai na tigela or açai in a bowl. My taste for açai itself isn’t the best thing I ever had, and i don’t like it plane. I like to mix grape juice with açai juice, tastes loads better, plus they look the same color in juice.

yes, apples are good, I heart too that one apple a day stuff, but açai is really great too. And very, very anti oxidant.

André Degaspery – Brazil
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Was that some kind of rick roll? I laughed my ass off!

RE: shocky’scamera I wonder how many participants looked up at them and thought, “that’s where all my hard work and money goes”. I also wonder how many from the photo have jumped ship since 2009, on to fresher pastures of new MLM scams.

check the link above to youtube devon jensen

http://rickross.com (Rick Ross Institute, professional deprogrammer for various kinds of cults, including commercial cults like TEAM)

http://www.howcultswork.com (General overview of how cults operate and various kinds of cults, including commercial cults. Also discusses Mind Control)

http://www.culthelp.info (Resource site which includes a section on commercial cults, includes personal testimonies of Amway, another company that TEAM was involved in up until about five years ago. Has personal testimonies.

http://www.juicescam.com (Owner does extensive research on Monavie’s juice blends, also the owner of http://www.teamscam.com which is a sister site

TEAM is the “tools” side of Monavie and is another MLM on top of an MLM. They sell the motivational tapes etc. to the distributors and also have their own little private scam within the larger Monavie scam. Again, very religious in it’s indoctrination, women are marginalized (our job is to stay home and take care of the children…we are not born leaders) and leaders are worshipped. Orrin Woodward is the puppeteer behind THAT scam.

Not sure if you want to go down this rabbit hole though! It is all very disturbing, and to know that I was remotely involved with a company like this STILL makes me slightly nauseus.

I wonder if the “house” was actually ever built or if that was another lie. My guess is that if it was built, they used money from the fake charity, the MORE project, to do this.

I like the way that the named the most recent ‘convention’ a “family reunion” in order to engrain the sense of a “community” into these poor (literally & figuratively) souls. The conventions always ended on Sunday with a Christian church service (weird, my company doesn’t do that after a seminar/convention) but the baptisms took it to a whole different level. I guess any of the Jews, Muslims, Bahai, Bhuddists ,Hindus etc. just told to hold their own religious ceremonies in their hotel rooms. It is so sick and twisted, I can’t even begin to wrap my head around it.

I wonder what the upcoming Salt Lake City convention will bring…can’t WAIT to see those photos!

Then there’s that group shot of the black diamonds — in other words, the recipients of 99.5% of all distributor income. I wonder how many participants looked up at them and thought, “that’s where all my hard work and money goes”. I also wonder how many from the photo have jumped ship since 2009, on to fresher pastures of new MLM scams.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4086

The author did a really good job about something I wanted to discuss here.

I wish there were videos so that I can hear what is being said to these people right before the baptisms.

Vogel, thanks for the link. Truly an eye opener.