Who do you boycott?

Just recently started knocking about with a nice lady who has a habit of making me aware of the consequences of my purchasing choices in terms of human rights, animal cruelty etc.

My favorite ‘soda’ maker, Coke is apparently responsible for violence and intimidation towards workers in Columbia and Guatemala, the electric toothbrush I just bought is made by Braun who test on animals, the Rolos I bought for us to enjoy are made by Nestle who have dubious advice to offer African mothers….etc etc etc…

It’s a minefield out there seemingly and I guess I tend to be happily ignorant for much of the time but would quite like not to be.

So who do you boycott, why do you boycott them and how far out of your way either in convenience or financially do you go to make ethical choices?

Maybe you fall in the apathy camp like I’ve been guilty of?

It’s tough to be ‘clean’ these days…

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Harrods

Porsche, Ferrari and Bentley

I would just boycott the “nice lady who has a habit of making me aware of the consequences of my purchasing choices in terms of human rights, animal cruelty etc.”

Sky

local bikeshops with bad business ethics.

tesco – for a myriad of reasons. Get all of my groceries from little, local producers or a couple of decent independent shops. More expensive and timne consuming but still better than tesco.

Macdonalds. Well not exactly boycotting, it did start off as a feeble studenty protest around mclibel time, but now it’s just because they’re not very good.

It would be easier to just boycott the nice lady.

So why folks?

Superstar Components. The way he behaved on here and in other places was unacceptable.

Stuff from Israel.

It would be easier to just boycott the nice lady.

True….but she is VERY nice…. 🙂

Rapha.

Their appropriation of cycling history and tradition to sell over priced fashion clothing made in various cheaper-than-the-UK countries get on ma nerves.

Israeli produce in any form.

tesco – for the immense damamge they’ve done to our high streets and local shops, for the noose they put around the necks of our food producers, for the trillions of plastic bags scattered across the countryside that they refuse to remove.

the electric toothbrush I just bought is made by Braun who test on animals

She objects to animals having clean teeth?

oh yeah i’d forgotten israel – nothing from them either. How a nation formed from the despair of the holocaust can knowingly inflict civilian suffering on a neighbour is beyond me.

Frankie and bennys
Maplin
sports direct
b and q
All done to bad experience, the ethics of their personnel and retail practice leave me fuming

And breathe

I would just boycott the “nice lady who has a habit of making me aware of the consequences of my purchasing choices in terms of human rights, animal cruelty etc.”

I stay away from the unenlightened.

tobacco companies

Go Compare, purely because I hate their TV adverts.

True….but she is VERY nice….

May I suggest a game then?
You try to consume as much product from as dodgy a moral source as you can without being found out.

She objects to animals having clean teeth?

That is a classic. 😆

Domestic and general.
Any French car

Boycott is probably a bit strong a word, but there’s a few brands that won’t be getting my hard earned € any time soon.
Nike, plus 2 of the most popular global consumer gadgetry/computer companies. Oh and the Guardian. And $ky.

edit: oh and Peugeot (^^ thanks for the reminder)

How a nation formed from the despair of the holocaust can knowingly inflict civilian suffering on a neighbour is beyond me.

I think the two are related, the suffering from one has instilled such a sense of self preservation (at any cost) that they seem to blind to the suffering of others. Ironic and rather sad really.

For his controversial cricket commentatory I have always wanted to boycott Geoff Boycott?
I do try to avoid buying French if possible and anything involving Murdoch or The Guardian, two sides of the same coin.

tesco, sky, macdonalds

Go Compare, purely because of the world’s most annoying adverts

Nestle due to their dubious practices of giving away free baby milk to mothers in africa – which in turn leads to the mother becoming dependent on said baby milk to feed their babies

The Guardian? What paper do buy instead? They are all tainted in some way but I would of though the Guardian must have the least mud stuck to it?

Starbucks, ever since they’ve started installing ‘one button coffee machines’. I don’t care if it’s exactly the same, I want my coffee being accompanied with the ‘whack’ of emptying coffee filters.

Married to a midwife so Nestle products are not allowed.
Try to avoid the big coffee shop chains and find local independents if possible.
Also stopped taking any papers that make Murdoch any money, never buy red tops.

Geoffrey

Anything from local shops for their failure to form a coherent brand image and market presence
Anything from local producers for having a supply strategy based upon “what’s in season” rather than “what can be obtained”
Any consumer goods named after fruits
And anything Scottish

You boycott the Guardian? On what grounds? I could understand employing George Monbiot, but…

I wouldn’t buy a paper now anyway, and wouldn’t pay to get thru online newspaper firewalls either. But Guardian is down there with the Daily Wail (which is a given), in the likelihood of getting money from me.
Being ex-pat also means I don’t need to explicitly “boycott” all those insurance companies with seriously annoying ads.

edit: and I refuse to click any Mail/Guardian links in posts too. Even if they are free to read.

But Guardian is down there with the Daily Wail (which is a given), in the likelihood of getting money from me.

Yep, the other extreme for me too.

Poncy coffee shops.

Sky and anything else touched by Murdoch
Food products with Palm Oil, eg Nutella
Unethically produced food, eg cheap chicken etc
Companies I’ve had poor service from