Do you boycott anything?

[begin_within]

The only thing I consciously think about boycotting these days is Gillette products, because of their testing on animals. I will admit their Fusion razor is excellent - they mailed free samples to everyone so I tried it, but I'm not going to buy it because it's Gillette.

[malta blue]

1. I don't use Gillette products either, nor

Del Monte because of their land use in Central America.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. If it says "Made in China" I put it back

That accounts for a lot of things, but so be it. I won't buy it.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. Same here.

I have a blender I bought in 1983 that still works fine. It's a Hamilton Beach made in the US. It's a harvest gold color, which is so outdated, but it works just fine. My husband wanted to upgrade it recently, but we could not find a single blender, either high-end or low-end, that was NOT made in China. We will stick with our trusty harvest gold one, thank you very much.

[cobalt1999]

13. me too.

It's not easy sometimes.

[triguy46]

17. Me too.

[DS1]

3. mostly types of food

foie gras
lobster
veal


I saw some footage of ducks being force feed in a tiny dark French farm the other day. You could tell the ducks were scared shitless of the farmer just by the way they were falling over themselves trying to avoid him. Sick fucker. Then they pulled out one of their livers, and it was big as a normal sized duck, or 10 times the normal size of a duck liver. I wanted to machete the guy's head off

[femmocrat]

4. Yes, Walmart and Nike shoes.

I just don't like Walmart and I heard a long time ago that Nike's shoes were made by child labor.

I try to buy American as much as possible, but it isn't always possible anymore. :(

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Disney, as much as I can. I used to boycott Burger King and Snarl's Jr.

due to having read that they contribute to those against planned parenthood.

Why Disney, aside from the vomitous, one-dimensional pap they assault us with? (Does NOT count Pixar.) Mr. Disney is said to have been the hidden Hollywood reporter to the Macarthy (sp) hearings, and ruined many lives. That and much more.

[jobycom]

34. Disney is up and down.

Eisner leaned Democratic, and was a strong environmentalist. Disney stood up to the Southern Baptists over gay family beneifits, and hosts a gay pride week annually. DisneyWorld is actively pro-environment, and incorporates anti-developer and pro-environment messages in many of its attractions. It's films have again regressed, but during the 90s under Eisner Disney went from their helpless heroine themes to a multi-cultural, gender-equality message, with films like Pocahontas, Mulan, and The Lion King. They also introduced the Studio Ghibli films to America.

On the down side, they also turned out Beauty and the Beast, and various horrid sequels, and their Disney Channel shows are stereotypical, sexist, and usually, with some exceptions, poorly done.

I hated Disney in the early 90s, but came to like them. I'm fading back to dislike in the last few years. But they are such a diverse company, it's hard to have just one opinion of them. Like most mega- corporations, they try to have something for every market.

[Fire Walk With Me]

78. "They also introduced the Studio Ghibli films to America."

It's like the devil offering you a bag of free diamonds. You really like the diamonds but don't want to support their distributor...

[jobycom]

97. More like trying to hate someone who is giving you a bag if diamonds

by forgetting the diamonds and finding only bad stuff to remember. Kind of the way the Republicans do with Clinton! :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

100. Disney caused people to lose their livelihood and they still annoy.

It's a caustic mix. They should straighten themselves out. No money to them until they do. As punishment, you will view "Newsies" and "Valiant" ten times each, ala' the Ludovico treatment. ;-)

Also, I've never set foot in a Wal Mart, and never will.

[Drum]

7. Exxon

I will never forgive them for the Alaska spill, and their subsequent dodges. :( There is always another place to buy gas.

[supernova]

8. Wal-Mart, Cracker Barrel,

now I'm striking "Made in China" off my list until their quality and practices demonstrably improve.

edit: forgot Exxon. I mostly buy Citgo now.

[idgiehkt]

67. same here

except that I had to buy some fence stakes at Walmart the other day because I'd bought all the ones that K-mart had and Lowes was out of them

[blondeatlast]

9. Wal-Mart, but it's less political (that too, of course) than it is

that I just get creeped out walking into it.

Too bright, too dirty, too loud, too big, and the employees are clearly unhappy.

There's one very near my house and any other civilization is almost 10 miles away, but I make the drive.

[grace0418]

58. Here's what I don't get about Walmart. I live in Chicago. The only Walmart I've ever

stepped foot into is the one by my office. I never shop there but my company sells products to them so I sometimes have to check out the stores to see where they've placed our stuff. All three or four times I've been in Walmart, it has been filled to the brim with the skankiest, trashiest people ever. I'm not referring to poor people. I've lived at or below the poverty line plenty of times in my life. I'm talking about people who can't be bothered with common courtesty, can't speak in normal conversational tones, can't be bothered to pay one ounce of attention to their children unless it's to hit them or scream at them. They open up packages of food, eat what they want, then leave the package. They throw merchandise on the floor, and run over other's discarded merchandise with their carts. They cut in line, scream at the staff, spend the entire time talking at top volume on their cell phones, and have hissy fits at anyone who tries to stop them.

I mean, I *know* there are gross, rude people everywhere. But that one Walmart I've been to seems to import or attract the absolute dregs of humanity. I just don't get it because none of the other stores in the area are like that. The Target, CostCo, Jewel, Pier 1, Michaels, etc. all seem to have their share of idiots and normal people. But the Walmart is like a whole different thing.

*shudder*

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. Republicans.

[graywarrior]

39. Same here.

[triguy46]

11. Domino's pizza, Pizza Hut, Snapple.

[idgiehkt]

83. what did Snapple do?

I missed that one (I don't think I've ever had but maybe one snapple my whole life, but still...)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. wal-mart. urban outfitters.

[seemunkee]

18. Why urban outfitters?

I've seen reasons for everything else.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. for support to rick santorum and other republicans.

CEO Contributed $13,150 to the campaign coffers of Rick Santorum and his Political Action Committee over the years.

and because the had a t-shirt out which said "voting is for old people" right around the 2004 elections./

[seemunkee]

24. forgot about the t-shirt

Didn't know about the support for Santorum.
thanks

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

98. I was browsing at Urban Outfitters

and found a mug with a pic of Bush with devil horns. I REALLY liked it but couldn't get over the irony that in buying the mug I would be supporting the Repubs. Now I'm stuck drinking coffee from my uber geeky "I called for change and America answered!" mug from MoveOn. Boring!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

99. cute story!

:hi:

[MorningGlow]

14. Exxon/Mobil

For their obscene profits.

Oh--and Wal-Mart, of course. :scared: They're just icky.

Also try to avoid chain restaurants because of the nastiness they pass off as food, but it's harder and harder to find independent restaurants where we live. We've got a couple of good local chains, though, which are often our salvation.

[RedG1]

15. I boycott ANY sponsor of OxyContin addicted, Hydrocodone abuser,

Lorcet abusing "hate radio" host Rush Limbaugh

[triguy46]

16. That's my pizza hut, snapple, and need to add sleep number bed.

[triguy46]

19. Need to add cartridge world and barnes and noble...

for their big adds at analcyst boy's website.

[LaraMN]

20. Fox News- mostly because I like my food to stay in my stomach.

Sears. They're assholes.
The Gap. They screwed me with an online order, a couple of years ago, and didn;t respond to my online and written complaints.
I try to avoid giving unnecessary business to our local WalMart, but it's somewhat unavoidable, as they've driven competing businesses out.

[xmas74]

27. I have no choice on Walmart either.

I try to purchase the item at a local place if I can but sometimes Walmart is all I can use. I could drive to another place but that would be a 40 minute drive and would the gas wasted, the wear and tear on the vehicle, etc be worth it just to say that I didn't buy it at Walmart?

(I know-I'm going on a bit but it's a topic that annoys me around here. You're not a good liberal if you shop at Walmart but many of the small town libs here have no other choice. In my town, they even put the school supply list at Walmart and Dollar General, instead of handing them out.)

[Dragonbreathp9d]

21. Coke, Walmart, Phillip Morris, Gap, Old Navy, etc etc

[Wapsie B]

22. I'm with ya on the Gillette razors.

I really liked the original Mach3 and thought that since there were several generations of razors after that one that Gillette would make the price of the Mach3 a little more reasonable. It's a great razor. But if Gillette insists on being as piggish as they are it just gives me an excuse to shop around. Even if I happen to buy a store brand that Gillette happens to make I still will not buy their over-priced name-brand razors. Bic or Personna for me.

[NMDemDist2]

25. WalMart, which is hard to do in my little town

but it's a year and counting and I haven't had to shop there yet :woohoo:

in Phoenix it was easy, here it's really the only shopping in town except a grocery store and several dollar stores

[AlCzervik]

26. Walmart and fast food.

[mainegreen]

28. It seems like my life is one big boycott sometimes.

:D

[hedgehog]

29. My children enforce a no Kraft's Products rule because the parent

company sells tobacco. It's not much of a problem since I avoid trans-fats and corn syrup anyways.


For years, my kids would eat anything and everything except grapes. That's because we boycotted them when they were all small. They'll eat them now, but for a long time they were suspicious of them!


Oh yeah, Walmart is so far off our radar that I forgot that we never go there!

Also, although Fulton is famous for it's fast food strip (Mc.D's, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut 2(@ count them 2!) Dunkin' Donuts, Wendy's, Frajita Grill, Domino's, Arby's, J-Rek's and Subway) , we only get take-out form the local drive-in, the local Chinese restaurant and the local pizzeria.

Oh, I forgot - no Nestle's because they shut down their plant here, no Hershey's because they're moving production to Mexico.

[XemaSab]

82. As Arlo Guthrie says,

"It must be strange to grow up in this country and not know what a grape looks like!" :D

[Guava Jelly]

30. Taco Bell

Because it goes straight to my gut

[Tektonik]

31. Coke and Walmart, n/t

[Alexander]

32. Most Republican companies and big chains.

They tend to go hand in hand.

My roommate, on the other hand, shops at all these terrible places, and then tries to justify it to me "well, I only shop there on Tuesdays..." as if I should care.

[1gobluedem]

33. WalMart, Pizza Hut, Asian auto imports

WalMart for obvious reasons, Pizza Hut because they paid Rush Limbaugh to be a spokesperson, Asian auto imports because of the trade imbalance, closed markets, currency manipulation, and union-busting in their US plants by establishing them only in 'right to work' states.

[flvegan]

35. Boy, have I got a list:

ANY company that tests on animals is out. Any clothing designer that uses fur in any of their lines is out. WalMart, naturally. Any restaurant that serves veal (unless it's a relative's birthday, and they choose that place). Petstores that sell puppies. I could go on.

[Richard Steele]

36. Nestle, Coca-Cola, WalMart, any business with pro-Bush crap in their window...

...and anyone who goes out of their way to advertise
that they're a "Christian" business.

I try to avoid "made in China", but that's not really
a boycott so much as an attempt to keep my money going
to more local business.

[LynneSin]

37. The only 100% definate boycotts I do are Wal-Mart, Dominos and Pizza Hut

Wal-mart because they're just a plague on society

Dominos because they were owned by a right-wing anti-choice nut job

Pizza Hut because they once used Rush Limbaugh as their spokesperson back in 1993

[HERVEPA]

41. The nutjob doesn't own Domino's anymore

[1gobluedem]

43. That's true but the current CEO is a major Michigan right-winger

Headed up the Dick DeVos campaign for governor which, fortunately, failed plus the guy also lost his seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents (which are partisan and elected) because of his conservatism.

Plus their pizza isn't that great.

I did PR at Domino's for three years when the wacko was in charge. Strangest experience of my life.

[LynneSin]

47. Doesn't matter - still won't eat the Pizza

I mean let's face it - Dominos is crappy pizza anyways

[HERVEPA]

53. Totally agree on that

[NaturalHigh]

38. KFC...

We haven't eaten there for years, even though I used to love their chicken pot pies.

[lildreamer316]

56. Boston Market's pies are WAAAAAAAAY better.

But I don't know about their politics....I don't eat there much anyway 'cause they are across town.

[NaturalHigh]

72. I've never tried them.

We don't have one here, but I'll check them out the next time I'm in the "big city'.

[HERVEPA]

40. Gillette, Walmart, Domino's, Dunkin Donuts (Carlylsle Group)..

Exxon/Mobil, Bruce Willis movies, Scwarzenegger movies, Stallone movies, Cracker Barrel,...

[ThomCat]

69. Good list. Me too.

[Taverner]

42. WalMart

My grandparents, who participated in some of the great UAW strikes, would roll over in their graves if I shopped there...

[NewWaveChick1981]

44. Definitely Wal Mart...

And as I said in my earlier thread, I do not buy anything from China.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. My dear bob_weaver...

Of course, WalMart and Sam's...

But the biggie for me is Nestle's...

And that is very difficult, since they have bought up so many companies......:mad:

[Critters2]

81. We're still boycotting Nestle's?!

I thought that ended. I never get the updates right!

[hedgehog]

104. It's a local thing, here in Fulton ,New York

Nestle's started making chocolate chips at the plant here years ago. They never paid well, but they paid steady pretty much until they shut the plant down and moved to Brazil

[DesertRat]

46. Wal-Mart. n/t

[MissMillie]

48. boycotts

I boycott boycotts

[Dr. Strange]

49. I hate people who boycott boycotts!

Consider yourself boycotted!

[Pierre.Suave]

50. yes

walmart and sams club.

I refuse to go there.

[SoxFan]

51. You shouldn't have asked!!!

Well, I boycott all music
approved by Tipper Gore.
An’ I boycott the president
because he doesn’t boycott war.
An’ I boycott Pepsi
but I forgot what for.
An’ I boycott hospitals
when their medical waste shows up on the shore.
An’ I boycott Beatrice products
even though I’m not sure what they produce.
An’ I boycott Gillette
because they institute bunny rabbit abuse.
An’ I boycott GE
because they make nucular weapontree (sic)
An’ I boycott Led Zeppelin
because I think Robert Plant sings horribly
An’ I boycott Folgers’
cuz they exploit the colombian coffee picker
An’ I boycott fur
because of something I read on a bumper sticker.
An’ I boycotted work last week
because I had to attend a political rally.
And I boycott tuna fish
cuz I was told to by Kirstie Alley.

Cuz I’m self-righteous, pretentious, and politically correct.
My views are slightly to the left of Karl Marx and Bertolt Brecht.
And I’ve even considered joining a Buddhist sect.
And it hurts me when I realize this world is nearly wrecked.

An’ that’s one reason why I recycle.

I recycle grass, leaves, tinfoil and bottles and cans;
paper, plastic, and other people’s ideas;
wood, clothing, furniture, and rubber.
And I also recycle the music of the Grateful Dead, just like this:

“Busted down on bourbon street,
set up like a bowlin’ pin…”
There’s my Grateful Dead cover song for the day.
An’ I think everbody who does a Grateful Dead song has integrity.
And I think everyone who ain’t got integrity should do a Grateful Dead song.
Think about it. Pretty deep, huh?

Cuz I’m self-righteous, pretentious, and politically correct.
My views are slightly to the left of Karl Marx and Bertolt Brecht.
And I’ve even considered joining a Buddhist sect.
And there isn’t a hidden injustice in this world that I can’t detect.

And that’s just one of the reasons that I don’t eat meat.
I also don’t eat anything processed, manufactured, or artificially preserved.
And you’ll never catch me munchin’ on anythin’ flavored or sweetened either.
In fact my diet consist of four foods;
rice,
soy,
tofu,
and lentils.

Oh, I’m self-righteous, pretentious, and politically correct.
My views are slightly to the left of Karl Marx and Bertolt Brecht.
And I’ve even considered joining a Buddhist sect.
And there isn’t a superficial, shallow, or conventional idea that I don’t reject,
cuz I’m just so hip.

And my parents were hippies too.
They let me smoke pot when I was like five.
And I organized my first political movement at the age of eleven.

Freedom.

Now I’m gonna show you how passionate I am.



— Wally Pleasant, “The Hippie’s Lament”, from sometime in the early '90s

[XemaSab]

85. Wow.... that songs calls out EVERYONE I know....

:rofl:

[LNM]

52. Wal-Mart, Blue Moon

Sorry, I know lots of people like Blue Moon, but it's owned by Coors. Can't have that in our house.

[lildreamer316]

54. Dominos Pizza.

Owner is a rightwing religious anti-woman dumbass. I have no reason to patronize; seeing as how there's a Papa John's in the area.

[Va Lefty]

55. Wal-Mart and Fox Noise

Never thought I would use parental blocking feature on cable box, but decided to block Fox Noise during 2004 election. Alot less yelling and cursing at the TV, at least until football season!

[grace0418]

57. Oberweis Dairy products, Mobil, Walmart. The only one that is difficult is

Oberweis because their milk is DE-licious. But Jim Oberweis is a total RW asshole, so I will not buy it.

I never shop at Walmart so that's easy. I would hate to live in a place where Walmart was the only option. Same with Mobil.

[taterguy]

59. Factory salmon

Not too difficult since I'm not a big fan of salmon in general. The process to make factory salmon does terrible things to the Earth's oceans and fish supply.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

60. Exxon/Chevron/etc. etc.

Also KFC, but I've stopped eating meat of any kind now anyway, so...

[NC_Nurse]

61. Walmart.

They suck.

[fudge stripe cookays]

62. Promised Land Dairies, Wal-Mart & Sam's,

Exxon, Cracker Barrel, and I'm learning more in this thread.

[Dukkha]

63. MBNA, Wal Mart, Dominoes, NASCAR, IKEA

MBNA is not around anymore, part of Bank of America now, but they were the single largest contributor to * campaign.

Wal Mart of course for a list far too long to mention, their just plain evil.

Dominoes for the fundy crap plus the pizza just plain sucks.

NASCAR for extremely crass tasteless commercialism, pandering hard to the right, and environmental destruction. a conservative sport if their ever was one.

IKEA for the destruction of an ancient Chinese tomb and their incredibly bland isometric designs gentrifying homes everywhere.

[mockmonkey]

64. Oh God

They're shaving animals? j/k I didn't know they tested on animals. Won't buy their products anymore.

[bif]

65. Little Caesar's pizza & Wal-Mart

[UrbScotty]

90. Why Little Caesar's?

Domino's was founded by Tom Monaghan, and its current CEO chaired DeVos's campaign, IIRC. But what about Little Caesar's?

[martymar64]

66. Walmart and Bruce Willis movies

n/t

[Adsos Letter]

68. No Exxon gas...

[FloridaJudy]

70. Hershey's chocolate

Because of closing all their American plants and outsourcing. It's no loss: it was crappy chocolate, anyway. Ghirardelli's still made in the SF Bay Area, and it's much, much better.

I also try to avoid products tested on animals, but lately even some of their labels are starting to creep me out: "Not tested on animals. Only tested on humans". This is somehow supposed to reassure me? "We didn't test this on bunny rabbits, we sprayed it in the eyes of third-world toddlers instead"? I'll pass, thanks.

[Critters2]

84. Oftentimes this means it was tested with friends or employees

of the company. And usually it's tested by actually using the product as intended. Then checking to see if anyone broke out, got sick, etc. Doesn't usually mean spraying in anyone's eyes. Which proves that the eye-spraying tests were never necessary to begin with!

[begin_within]

86. I'm with you on the chocolate thing, but just one problem...

...I've never really liked Ghirardelli's. Every bar I've gotten seems like brown wax to me - almost no flavor. I can hardly detect any real "chocolate aroma." Don't know why this is...

[volstork]

71. walmart, Exxon, Nike,

veal, "Made in China"

[alarimer]

73. I boycott boycotts

Seriously, though, only Wal-Mart. I won't set foot in one if I can avoid. It has to be pretty much the last resort. Like it's 2 am and I have a bad headache and no aspirin in the house or something. Well I will use the restroom and then not buy anything.

[conscious evolution]

74. Troublesome self check out lines. When

they malfunction I walk out of the store immediately,leaving whatever I was going to purchase right there.

[sniffa]

75. outback

and it's hard because i Love much of their food... incLuding the best buffaLo wings i've ever eaten. why can't other restaurants bread buffaLo sauce on? :cry:

[Divameow77]

95. What's wrong with Outback?

I haven't heard anything...

Then again I haven't heard anything about alot of companies in this thread.

[sniffa]

101. according to DU, they're a very Large

donator to the repubLican party.

[Initech]

76. I dont buy anything from Wal-Mart or Exxon

It's a personal boycott, but it is saving me a lot of money, no less.

[hippywife]

77. Lots of things.

Overtly we boycott Walmart, Shell, and any foods with HFCS or enriched flours. Overall we boycott tons of stuff because we are totally not into the consumerism that plagues this country. The only real shopping we do is for groceries and we try to buy at the small local stores and farm markets when possible. We don't have cable TV or go out to restaurants much at all. We just aren't in to buying shit.

[XemaSab]

79. Exxon

I will never, ever forgive them for the oil spill.

[Critters2]

80. Leather, wool, products tested on animals, anything made in China

Pet foods made by companies that used Menu Foods, meat in all its disgusting forms (except for cat food, but see above).

Lots and lots of things. Before my sister buys me a gift, she calls to "review the rules" as she calls it. I have lots of rules.

[LSK]

87. Walmart

[Digit]

88. Budweiser, Disney, Walmart

Totally happy to continue, too.

[UrbScotty]

89. Wal-Mart and McDonalds

McDonald's tomatoes are harvested by people who are forced to work for $1 per day, IIRC.

Do I need to discuss Wal-Mart?

[usaftmo]

91. Wally-World, Faux news, msnbc, and

gas stations other than Citgo (when there's a Citgo around). Even when I'm shopping on eBay the first thing I look at is the state that the seller is in. If that state is severely red, or has a right-wing nut job in it...I won't buy from that seller. Instead I'll look for the same item from a different seller. The percentage of positive feedback also is considered.

[GOPS Worst Fear]

92. Any Enity/Corp. that is against Gays..

Salvation Army, Crackel Barrel, any company or enity that I know discrimination against gays.

[annonymous]

93. Wal-Mart and Fox News Network

I haven't stepped inside a Wal-Mart in three years. I chose the satellite package that did not include Fox News four years ago.

[Orsino]

94. Fox, most sneaker makers. n/t

[Divameow77]

96. I thought Gillette

didn't test on animals anymore?

Not that I'm saying it's okay that they did.

[SarahB]

102. Nestle and Walmart

About Nestle- http://www.babymilkaction.org/

[RiffRandell]

103. Circuses that use live animals. n/t

[Katina]

105. Whole Foods..they fit into that preachy santimonious

hollow halo crap that I can't tolerate.

[begin_within]

106. And their prices are pretty high.

[Katina]

107. you can say that again

preachy AND overpriced...worth boycotting.