Who do you routinely boycott, and why?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

I never go to Walmart, b/c of the cheap imports made by slave labor, and what they do to surrounding small community businesses.

I don't buy any Kraft products- for genetically modified reasons, or Coke - or Chiquita b/c of their dirty inhumane dealings in
Central and South America.

I like to be a better supporter of human rights, and buy mainly local- So would like to see what others are doing and learn more.

[brentspeak]

1. I especially avoid Wal-Mart nt/

[LisaM]

2. Walmart, Nike, and Home Depot, for starters

Walmart because of their business practices, Nike because of their labor force issues, and Home Depot because their store is dangerous, yet when anyone gets hurt there, they cover it up, and snow the aggrieved party with their lawyers.

[asdjrocky]

3. Coors. Everyone knows why.

Wal-Mart, probably not a secret, they are the most evil people on the planet.

Home Depot, assholes.

Whole Foods, like I can afford to go there anyway.

Mexican Drug Cartels, in Ca we can grow our own.

I buy everything I can local and I have a year 'round garden.

[NMMNG]

4. I have a long list

Walmart for obvious reasons, Whole Foods because the CEO is basically the Walton family of the health food industry. And all of the anti-gay shitheads listed in Base8 (incidentally, the Arts & Entertainment section will be up within the next week).

[izquierdista]

5. McDonald's

Last time I ate there was 1975, and it made me think "this must be what Soylent Green tastes like".

[asdjrocky]

9. It's people you know.

[izquierdista]

24. Not the people I know

They've left instruction to be cremated, so as to avoid the Golden Arches griddle.

[MineralMan]

6. Personally, I have stopped buying all products.

I'm losing weight, but eventually, I'm sure I'll win the battle.

Do the right thing! Boycott everything!

[HopeHoops]

7. WalMart of course, but Nestle is my longest running boycott - circa 1987

At least back then, they sent people dressed as doctors and nurses into hospitals in third-world countries to convince new mothers that their baby formula was superior to breast milk. They would give them enough free product to make sure the mother's own milk supply dried up. After that, they were dependent on formula and since it is so expensive, they stretch it with water that is seldom less than completely disgusting. Nestle has killed countless babies this way in the name of profit.

The boycott apparently had some impact, as they stopped dressing in hospital clothing, but they are still doing the same thing. I won't buy anything owned by Nestle, which includes Contadina, Carnation, Libby's, and other brands. You have to check the label. They keep buying shit.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. Yes, I stand with you on these bastards.

They were doing it before 1987 too...

I heard about Nestle from La Leche League back in the sixties! It's getting harder to boycott those scum-sucking bastards, since they've bought up so many formerly reputable companies.

They make me sick.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Exxon and Publix Grocery Store; for their reich wing book bias.

I use to be a regular shopper at Publix, but not anymore.

[sandnsea]

10. Until stockholders boycott

We won't have too much of an affect. I buy American at second hand stores because none of the big box stores are really any better than the rest. The local lefties boycott Safeway because of the CEO, but they shop at a non-union grocery store. I shop Safeway because it's union, because at least their workers have some power to fight for benefits, unlike the non-union grocery story. Frankly if I boycotted over every social injustice, I'd die in however long it takes to die of thirst because water isn't distributed fairly either.

[FreeState]

11. Salvation Army and Walmart and the local paper

Salvation Army: lobbies against civil rights

Walmart: if you have to ask you have not been paying attention

Local Paper: anti-union scum who pay their press workers minimum wage and refuse to let them unionize.

[elfin]

12. WalMart --- and Salvation Army buckets

I used to give to SA, but when they got tons of money from Joan Kroc and then turned around and refused to hire homosexuals due to some kind of "religious exemption", I quit.

I know they do many good things, but I can't abide their policies.

[Ken Burch]

13. Walmart

Blue Diamond Almonds(my union is the maritime division of the ILWU, and they have a boycott and an organizing campaign going among regarding Blue diamond).

I also boycott as much as I can from China (due to the slave labor working conditions) and I boycott anything produced on an illegal West Bank settlement.

I'd say I boycott Honduran goods over the coup, but I never ate that many bananas to start with.

I backed the South African boycott when apartheid was still in place.

[mediaman007]

14. FOX and CNN

and I never watch the local or corporate news.

It much easier to use the Internet and the many sources it provides.

[flvegan]

15. Any store/chain that sells fur.

Any company that still tests their cosmetics, etc on animals. Any restaurant that sells/serves veal.

[w8liftinglady]

16. Exxon/Mobil...greedy bastards.

[Goldstein1984]

17. Several

All pharmaceutical companies: I look for generic over-the-counter medications and lifestyle solutions whenever possible.
All non-free-trade coffee
All beef/pork/poultry producers
All farmed salmon

[Omaha Steve]

18. A few of mine that you would recognize the names

Walmart for many reasons.

Starbucks for it's anti-union firing of workers over and over.

Red Lobster. Love the place. But since HSUS started the boycott to end the seal hunt, we have not gone in the door.

[Inspired]

19. Walmart, Fox News, and for a couple of weeks I boycotted ABC.

[BeatleBoot]

20. Sam's Club, WalMart

and I only buy autos from GM, Ford and Chrysler.


and I avoid Beds, Bath and Beyond (non-Union and anti-Union).

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

21. No NFL for me anymore, ever

I quit watching and supporting pro football after they allowed Michael Vick to return. I may not be able to stop it but I do not have to give my attention or money to any group that condones that type of cruelty.

I quit using all OTC and prescription pain relievers about a year and a half ago: they are too dangerous and kill too many people.

[NoPasaran]

22. I boycott humus

It's dip for people without taste buds.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. it's tasty!

[NoPasaran]

44. Give Me Guacamole Or Give Me Death!

[Subdivisions]

23. I routinely boycott Big Oil. No padding the pockets of Exxon/Mobil,

BP, Texaco, Chevron, or Shell for me because Big Oil not only doesn't need my money but they are responsible for atrocities far and wide.

Yes, I realize that some of the minor operators I get gas from may be supplied by Big Oil somewhere down the line but I make a conscious effort to choose those places that I suspect provide the least amount of dollars to those companies. No Tiger Marts. No bottled water from a Chevron. No chips from the Texaco convenience store.

[MineralMan]

25. Boycott everything. Stop consuming entirely. The results will be

a great benefit to the planet, no doubt. :sarcasm:

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

26. nope

delete

[MineralMan]

27. OK. It was just a suggestion. Really. Not everyone can do that,

I understand.

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

34. I understood your sarcasm, genius

You're a winner, for sure.

[Arctic Dave]

28. Walmart, Chevron, Coors, local stores owned by idiots.

[TwilightGardener]

29. Outback Steakhouse.

Long waits, mediocre steak, Aussie theme stopped being cool in '85.

[moc]

32. Exxon and Nestle.

[Zoeisright]

33. Walmart, Sam's Club for obvious reasons.

Faux News I will never watch and ask establishments to change the channel.

I have a hard time buying anything Nestle because of the infant formula debacle. I'll buy another brand rather than theirs.

And nothing from Whole Foods anymore, since their CEO made such an ass of himself over HCR.

[chollybocker]

35. Amazon, for censorship.

Wmart, Fox, etc...

Clothing with a prominent designer logo.

All bottled water.

[Cartoonist]

36. MacD

MacDonalds is a big supporter of the GOP. I admit it's easy to boycott because of the low quality of its food.

We don't have a Wal-Mart nearby, so I can't boycott it. Instead, I join all efforts to stop construction of one in our community. The claim that it will create jobs is pure BS.

[upi402]

37. TV News, except MSNBC

I watch MSNBC all the time.
And listen to Air America, Jones, etc - all the time in the car.

[HughMoran]

38. Walmart and local businesses who put up McCain/Palin signs

I was disappointed that one was a place I stopped by often. I don't go there any more. Sucks to be a Republican ass hole.

[GeorgeGist]

39. Exxon/Mobil products ...

since Valdez.

[quiller4]

40. Walmart, Sams Club and I buy my lattes only from the union employees

(UFCW 367) at the Starbucks counter inside my local Fred Meyer store. I buy groceries only at Grocery Outlet and Fred Meyer both of which are union stores.

[RobinA]

41. For All Wal*Mart Boycotters

Where exactly do you buy your American made union goods, 'cause I'll be damned if I can find anything around my neck of the woods like that, inside or outside of Wal*Mart.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

49. I would like to know the answer too.

I live in rural America where I already have to drive 20 miles just to buy groceries.

If I want to shop anyplace but Kroger or Wallyworld or Lowe's, it's a drive of EIGHTY MILES.

To put it mildly, that is not practical in my world.

[winyanstaz]

42. I avoid Wallmart...A.T. & T...Coke...McDonalds...

Home Depot, Kraft, as well as Bank of America...
all for their dirty dealings.....
*edited to add..

Shell, Exxon and Fox...and Denny's because they have had so many race problems.

[Cleita]

43. I never go to WalMart either for the same reasons you do, but also I find

many of the people who shop there and hang out there scary.

[phasma ex machina]

45. M$M, for its megalomania. nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

46. Hersheys. They moved their chocolate plants to Mexico in 2008-9

and I have family affected there. Milton Hershey must be rolling in his grave.

[WonderGrunion]

47. I boycott Jewelry Stores and Champagne Makers

Oh wait...I'm just poor. That's not really a boycott, is it?

[donheld]

48. Chick fil'a

Wal-mart, White Fence Farms.