What do you boycott and why?

[catinthedark]

I have not bought French wine since 1995 - when I first heard about France's testing of nuclear weapons in the waters of the Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. They refused to stop despite global demands - and it's had environmental and atmospheric implications. France first started to do this in the 60s (before I was born).

I don't boycott WalMart because I don't really see the difference between WalMart and any other big grocery chain, or video chain (cough.. Blockbuster... cough), or coffee chain (Starbucks, Second Cup). They're all the same. To shop at Blockbuster, or Best Buy, but shun WalMart to me would be hypocritical.

What else? I boycott all fried fast food because of the health implications (but it's a personal one; to each his own). I don't lecture people who eat fries.

Can't think of anything else. The wine is my biggie.

[dissention]

Anything owned by Pepsi/Yum! Brands.

Wal Mart. I despise them with a passion. The most disgusting business practices. Capitalism at its worst.

IAMS.

I refuse to donate to the March of Dimes, too.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by dissention

Anything owned by Pepsi/Yum! Brands.

Wal Mart. I despise them with a passion. The most disgusting business practices. Capitalism at its worst.

IAMS.

I refuse to donate to the March of Dimes, too.

Okay - so Pepsi's another one for me too - but only because I hate pepsi products...

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

my hatred of Wal#$%&^Mart is due to their business practices with a company I was once employed with (Unarco Commercial Products of Wagoner, OK...Who manufactured ALL of the shopping carts at ALL of the Wal#$%&^Mart's worldwide).

What kind of company pays $5 for each shopping cart when total labor costs (Hourly labor, parts & material) around $45-$50 to manufacture each cart? And when the company who is manufacturing the carts tells Wal#$%&^Mart "That is not a physically possible deal in the business sense, We will lose $$$$ on this contract", What was Wal#$%&^Mart response? "We'll take our business to Mexico for even cheaper labor then..."

An utter complucking fly-drawing pile of horse-**** from a company that ONCE bragged about supporting "American Made" products (They no longer preach this practice!!!)

That is disgusting

[strandinthewind]

Not to hijack Deanna's thread But as a second part to the question, what companies have improved so that you no longer boycott them. I guess when is the business better?

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Not to hijack Deanna's thread But as a second part to the question, what companies have improved so that you no longer boycott them. I guess when is the business better?

hmm..that's an interesting twist....

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

hmm..that's an interesting twist....

I am glad you like it - I thought about starting a new thread, but it seemed to fit in this one

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Not to hijack Deanna's thread But as a second part to the question, what companies have improved so that you no longer boycott them. I guess when is the business better?

I can't think of any...If I don't like something/someone/etc. it may take me YEARS to finally be accepting (ie-Country Music, Hated it for the longest time) if at all.

[xdreamsunwindx]

Originally Posted by dissention

Anything owned by Pepsi/Yum! Brands.

Wal Mart. I despise them with a passion. The most disgusting business practices. Capitalism at its worst.

IAMS.

Yeah, those. Thx Diss!!!1!1!1one!11

Oh, and United Way. Also, Wilson's Leather, for obvious reasons. I dislike the Gap because of their prices and other things I've heard about them. I'm sure there's more.

Oh yeah - The Pittsburgh/Ohio grocery store chain, Giant Eagle. Disgusting prices. And this isn't technically boycotting, but I refuse to go to the ER at the hospital near where I live, because my appendix was on the verge of bursting, yet they still wouldn't see me. I've been seriously ill and I still refused to go. My mom almost pulled me to the car to go, but I refused, because of the way they treated me. Also, Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. My grandmother was in there for six months, and the lack of care she recieved there was partly responsible for her death.

I also boycott Abercrombie and Fitch, for their prices, and various other reasons.

[markolas]

I won't eat at Cracker Barrell.

Boy Scouts and Salvation Army also won't see a dime from me.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by markolas

I won't eat at Cracker Barrell.

Anyone with taste buds won't eat at Cracker Barrel.

Originally Posted by markolas

Boy Scouts and Salvation Army also won't see a dime from me.

Same here. Before Christmas, I had a ton of old clothes and odds and ends that I needed to get rid of, so I went to donate them to Goodwill. I got out of the car and started putting stuff into the big container and then realized that it was Salvation Army and not Goodwill, so I literally went back inside it and took the stuff back out.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by xdreamsunwindx

Yeah, those. Thx Diss!!!1!1!1one!11

Oh, and United Way. Also, Wilson's Leather, for obvious reasons. I dislike the Gap because of their prices and other things I've heard about them. I'm sure there's more.

Oh yeah - The Pittsburgh/Ohio grocery store chain, Giant Eagle. Disgusting prices. And this isn't technically boycotting, but I refuse to go to the ER at the hospital near where I live, because my appendix was on the verge of bursting, yet they still wouldn't see me. I've been seriously ill and I still refused to go. My mom almost pulled me to the car to go, but I refused, because of the way they treated me. Also, Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. My grandmother was in there for six months, and the lack of care she recieved there was partly responsible for her death.

I also boycott Abercrombie and Fitch, for their prices, and various other reasons.

Emergency rooms are the pits, but I go to them every time I have strep throat. I'm not patient enough or enough of a tough guy to schedule an appointment for later on and then wait longer for a prescription (the ONLY prescription I will ever accept because I never take prescription drugs). I need pain relief ASAP. And the Tylenol with codeine that they have at the ER is also helpful.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by dissention

Same here. Before Christmas, I had a ton of old clothes and odds and ends that I needed to get rid of, so I went to donate them to Goodwill. I got out of the car and started putting stuff into the big container and then realized that it was Salvation Army and not Goodwill, so I literally went back inside it and took the stuff back out.

[markolas]

Oh, and I'm not really a fan of Catholic hospitals. Though, I never really go to the doctor or the hospital for anything. I wonder if there's a way to let people know that I don't want to be treated in a Catholic hospital if I get in an accident or something. Hmmm...

[Serrart]

I boycott Nestle products, for their unethical marketing policy about the powdered baby milk, breaking a World Health Organisation Code on the marketing of breast milk substitutes.

This is what Nestle does (from: http://danny.oz.au/BFAG/ ):

# Nestlé and Wyeth (the other big producer of powdered baby milk) provide free milk to maternity hospitals in the Third World so that newborn babies are routinely bottle-fed.
# When newborn babies are given bottles, they are less able to suckle well. This makes breastfeeding failure likely. The baby is then dependent on artificial milk.
# When the mother and baby leave hospital, the milk is no longer free. At home parents are forced to buy more milk, which can cost 50% of the family income.
# Because the milk is so expensive the child is not fed enough. This leads to malnutrition.
# The water mixed with the formula is often contaminated. This leads to diarhhoea, malnutrition and often death. James Grant, Executive Officer of UNICEF, has said:
#Every day some 3,000 to 4,000 infants die because they are denied access to adequate breast milk.
# 1.5 million babies die every year from unsafe bottle feeding.
# Breast feeding is free and safe and protects against infection - but companies know that unless they get babies on the bottle, they don't do business.
Here there is a list of all Nestle products (I had to say goodbye to a lot of candy bars ):
http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/products.html

The latest news on the boycott are here:
http://www.babymilkaction.org/update/update35.html#20



Romy