Who do you boycott?

I’d say if you are going to boycott products that are supplied via morally dodgy companies/ countries you’ll have to go off line fellas!, Having visited the big players in the far east who almost certainly had a hand in you phone/tablet/pc etc then i’m afraid you wont have much choice. they are by european standards terrible places to work and the employees are treated pretty badly (although i’ve not been for a couple of years so they may have improved!!).

Tesco for their general underhandedness in planning and consequent dominance;
Tobacco companies as I detest their attempted cynical manipulation of people’s minds;
McDonalds for their business ethics;
Coke & Pepsi;
The Times partly as it’s Murdoch, partly as it’s poor in my opinion but mostly due to that Matthew Parris anti-cycling rant;
Eric Pickles if I possibly could.

ASDA – it’s full of poor people

Idealogical:
-Nike
-Newscorp/N.I./Sky

Aesthetic:
-most expensive-but-high-street brands where it is very omportant to have the brand name very big so everyone can see you are wearing it, particularly the ones that were cool and then sold out massively eg Bench, Ecko, Superdry.

Not sure whether “meat and fish” really counts: I do buy and cook these for other people and my children.

I am also a nurse, and so on a daily basis I am required to give people and extoll the benifits and virtues of medicines that are made by eeeeeeevil big pharma companies with highly dubious skellingtons* in their closets. (*yes that is how real health professionals speel it 😀 )

All Israeli produce. All non-free range eggs.

So if I stop spending my money there they will change or go out of business?

What about everyone else who uses/buys their products? Is their money not as powerful as my money?

I boycott The Sun. Er, but then again I don’t actually buy any newspapers, so does that count?

terroristsCorporations are easy to spot, they usually have a sign round their necks ! Outside

Probably do more damage to the world in the long run.

I boycott organised religion and talk-talk.

I refuse to flush the toilet, its sinful and cruel

All non-free range eggs.

You sir, truly are a martyr.

Oh yes. I forgot Ryanair for revelling in rude and atrocious “service”.

And Addison Lee for that appalling anti-cycling rant.

Vodaphone, for ineptitude and tax dodging.
U2, for bad music and tax dodging.

Most of this I get. But struggling to see how the Guardian gets lumped in with the Hail and the Murdoch press.

Yes they have a flagrant bias towards basket weaving lentil munchers but what bad can come of it. The Hail on the other hand would have us all watching our backs in fear of the immigrant granny bashing peados, it does tend to stir up a bit more trouble.

Been boycotting planes for the last few years.

no plans to get back on them any time in the near future. would like to visit canada at some point, but other than that, I’m quite happy ‘limiting’ myself to stuff that is in car/train range 🙂

Dave

no one. I have been trying to think of something.

I suppose, even though I don’t buy newspapers at all, I wouldn’t ever buy the sun, mainly because pretty everyone I’ve ever met who reads the sun is a moron. So include the Daily Mail in that too.

Been boycotting planes for the last few years.

That as well, partly because it’s nice not to rush everywhere but it isn’t always possible

The company I boycotted last year was Amazon.

They plissed me about with a quite expensive order and couldn’t be bothered to offer any decent customer service.

And that’s after being a customer of theirs since 1998.

The current company at the top of our 5h’itlist is Monarch Airlines after bouncing us off a flight yesterday. Spent 9 hours waiting for the next available flight which was in to Birmingham, which is 150 miles away from us.

I only really Boycot Nestle – well I try to, as above there’s always some random sauce/ingredient you buy and then later once you’ve got it home, you find that bloody bird on the back – and Asda.

But there are many shops I don’t shop in because I just don’t like being in them or what they sell, or they make me want to kill people – Starbucks, GAP, Dixons PC World etc…

I’d like to say I boycott Ebay on the basis they are based in Lichtenstein in fact anyone based in Lichtenstein should be boycotted but I cant. Ebay is ace for buying tat and my desire to buy tat overrides my ethical consumerism.

All non-free range eggs.

You sir, truly are a martyr.

genuine lol at that… So do I for what it’s worth, but since we have chickenses that an easy one…

Easyjet and Orange for their absolutely dreadful customer service.

I don’t boycott the ‘bay, but I just refuse to use it.
Liechtenstein is not a bad place. Quirky, and some seriously bling houses in places, but I’d go there again.

scruff – Member
Apple. Im not giving Bono any money.

Eh? What’s Bono got to do with Apple?
Starbucks, because their coffee is watery, flavourless pish, and Specalized, because they bought up the patent for the Horst Link system, then set about forcing other users to pay a licence fee for something they hadn’t had a hand in developing, like Nikolai, who had helped design and develop it. An early patent troll, so screw ’em.

I am boycotting work

No More Page 3 are asking people to boycott Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrison’s and DFS from October 29 through November 4 as these as big ‘family values’ advertisers in the Sun.

If you boycott a firm that uses cheap labour in the production of it’s clothes then they have falling profits and as a result will try to squeeze more out of their workers. Same with fairtrade foods.

So who wins from any of this?

It’s something I am often confused by.

I tend to buy fairtrade and use ethical clothing as much as I can, but I’m no saint and by far my closet 5 supermarkets are all Tesco’s – I can only buy local veg from the stand on the way home when it sells it – and they stop for 4 months of the year, so what the hell should I do then?

Oh, I am boycotting children though, bad for the environment, bad for additional strain on already limited resources and it means I never have to tell people about how little sleep I’m getting because of the little trolls.

Random chat over, time to go home – by bike (I boycott my own car as a commuter – it drinks way too much fuel!)

Tesco due to appalling customer service.
ASDA as they are owned by Walmart who have some horrible “Christian” practices.
J Wadsworth off licence, because the owner is a ****.

any human who breeds

RAC, as their membership cock-up left me to drive 200 miles with a broken front disk once.
Dave Hinde.

Edit – and square plates. I know it’s a ‘thing’ and not a ‘who’ but I won’t entertain any notion of a square dinner service.

Anything made in China. Within reason, obviously.

iDave

KFC – Crap water filled battery meat, and bad ethics.
Burger King and MacD’s – As above
Frankie and Bennys, La Tasca etc etc – Crap food.

French Cars – Crap.

Big shopping centres – Full of chavs
Sports Direct etc – as above

Cr@p water filled battery meat

There’s meat?
Mine was like heavily spiced castrol GTX with good measure of Mobil1.
Which probably explains why it came out the same end it went in.

Tesco and sky. For the monopolization and scant regard for the consequences. Not one penny of my money will go through a tescos till. They have to have a finger in every pie, in areas that they know nothing about ie tyres.

I don’t boycott much. Ryanair jump to mind, purely because of O’Leary. And there’s a local taxi firm here which I’ve boycotted because their drivers all drive with total disregard for anyone else on the road.

There’s plenty of brands I don’t use, or don’t use often, but it’s not really a boycott per sé. I rarely venture into McD’s et al for instance, largely because it’s not the most appealing of food vendors for a veggie. I don’t buy newspapers, because I have an Internet connection. And so on.

Isn’t the company supposed to be told that they’re being boycotted? Seems like a pointless act otherwise, no?
For me, Starbucks because of the alleged brand bombing strategy to close out competition.

McDonalds and most popular fast food outlets like KFC, Burger King, etc.
I read Fast Food Nation 8 years ago. I’ve reluctantly wavered on 3 occasions since but I felt dirt straight afterwards!
I try to avoid Tesco’s for the reasons stated above.
I also boycott people who don’t smile much – the sort who would comlain that their arse was on fire rather than put it out… I can’t be doing with people who whinge.
Whinge over…

Tesco’s derelict my balls.

There’s lots of places I never shop at and brands I never buy but I wouldn’t say I’m actively boycotting them as such purely because of who they are.
There are places I’ll never spend money again after very poor service though. But I dunno if that counts as a properly ethical boycott if it’s for specific but isolated events where I personally have felt hard done by- rather than their corporate policy.