What companies do you boycott?

i boycott brand label clothing like supre, billabong, roxy etc. the only place like this that i do buy from is jay jays cos most of the time they're plain n simple n u cant tell where they came from. i prefer to not be a corporate billboard

 

Once again , I boycot all shops what sell weapons ..

 

Starbucks, Wal*Mart, McDonalds, and Quiznos.

 

Warm Turd Makerz an Eaterz an Barbershopz 4 Normality.

 

i posses about 30 cents .....so i guess i boycott buying from everybody ...

 

i would accept some h or some morph analoge pharmies or some dank on credit .....but not much else

 

?? what tha F... ???

 

i dont' boycott companies as much as products, except for nike, i'll never pay money for a nike product, unless it's on sale, cuz if they're not paying full wages i'm not paying full prices

but i'll boycott products like ones that are made of things that are environmentally unsafe, or shit like that



i'm thinking of getting a job at wal-mart just so i can hand out pamphlets to customers with information about how cruel they are to the people who make their clothes, and what they've done to corrupt the environment and shit like that

 

LOL. I boycott pedophelia.

 

i just read this and it changed my opinion quite a lot:


"We examined the apparel industry in 10 Asian and Latin American countries often accused of having sweatshops and then we looked at 43 specific accusations of unfair wages in 11 countries in the same regions. Our findings may seem surprising. Not only were sweatshops superior to the dire alternatives economists usually mentioned, but they often provided a better-than-average standard of living for their workers.

The apparel industry, which is often accused of unsafe working conditions and poor wages, actually pays its foreign workers well enough for them to rise above the poverty in their countries. While more than half of the population in most of the countries we studied lived on less than $2 per day, in 90 percent of the countries, working a 10-hour day in the apparel industry would lift a worker above - often far above - that standard. For example, in Honduras, the site of the infamous Kathy Lee Gifford sweatshop scandal, the average apparel worker earns $13.10 per day, yet 44 percent of the country's population lives on less than $2 per day.

In 9 of the 11 countries we surveyed, the average reported sweatshop wages equaled or exceeded average incomes and in some cases by a large margin. In Cambodia, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Honduras, the average wage paid by a firm accused of being a sweatshop is more than double the average income in that country's economy.

Our findings should not be interpreted to mean that sweatshop jobs in the third world are ideal by US standards. The point is, they are located in developing countries where these jobs are providing a higher wage than other work.

Antisweatshop activists - who argue that consumers should abstain from buying products made in sweatshops - harm workers by trying to stop the trade that funds some of the better jobs in their economies."

boycotting does fucking nothing. if you care AT ALL, you'll have to be creative and put in a little extra work, come up with ideas that actually make sense. what we should care about is not the fact that these people are working, that they're getting paid less than us, that the companies they work for are fucking up the environment... we should focus on the fact that the environment is being fucked up, and not how it's happening, just that it is happening and it does affect us. pinpoint ways that it is being fucked, and come up with real solutions. not just say "this company is bad, don't support them", it's more complicated than that.

nobody's gonna listen to me anyway but oh well...

 

All companies that are not fair trade, have ethical standards or do not produce organically.


It's hard sometimes and more expensive but why live at the expense of others?

 

How does one do that- renounce their Catholicism?

 

LMAO. Exactly. I tried to be a priest but when they told me part of my training was to have sex w/ a little boy without him telling his parents I was like...damn...this is too much work.

 

It's best for me to stay the hell out of WalMart,living in a rural area I've seen
that monsterous Jelly Fish of a department store unfurl its deadly tentacles
and choke the life out of most of the pleasant mom and pop stores and shops
here. I'll drive thirty miles to shop somewhere else.

They had Saturday Singles Night in the WalMart here for awhile,the staff would
fill small kiddie pools with water for the local webfoots to breed in.

This was followed by the Mutant Midnight Madness Sale, where I had an
substance induced panic attack,left my cart by the sunglass rack and fled
out the door,where a unibrowed chick winked at me.

I felt like I was gonna go belly up like the tropical fish in the pet-department
by remaining a minute longer in the guts of that hellish monster.

 

Boycott the black market drug capitalism industry. Help bring the prices DOWN. Form buying clubs and purchase in quantity to save everybody money. Grow or make your own. Just don't make your own if it entails toxic POLLUTION. Don't sell NUTHIN'! Share or Give it away. Beat the DEA at their own game. Don't give 'em "probable cause", ever. Keep 'em guessing.

 

starbucks - i love the local coffee shops in my town and on new years eve their were probably 50 people in a starbucks and only 15 people in one of our local ones.

Wal-mart + any fast food business = obvious


what is the oil company from mexico? I've heard some pretty bad things about them but I forgot the name..

 

I pretty much try to just not buy things from large corporations...Always aim for the small buisnesses...It's just important I think to shop local and support the informal economy...

So I very much agree with lots of the buisnesses you guys are listing, and many more oviously.

 

I boycott Wal-Mart. I won't step foot in that store.

 

I don't so much "boycott" places (although I'm with most of the rest of you hippies who don't frequent Sprawl-Mart).

I tend to vote with my dollar.

For instance - I go tto a store where they offer choices I would prefer. For instance I'll buy fair trade coffee even if Folgers is cheaper, I'll purchase organic socks, I'll eat organic veggies.

I ALSO buy locally when it's feasible (it's not always feasible). I buy ALL my free range, homrone free eggs and such from a local family, in the summer our produce is purchased primarily @ the farmer's market.

I DO buy fuel for my car - but I buy it from a small local guy who is ALSO into healthier living - so that's good.

MINDFULNESS is key here. While none of us are likely to stop relying on plastic entirely or refuse to use a toxic leaden computer - if each of us is mindful of ways we can comsume more carefully - then eventually it all adds up.

FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL - if we want our nasty little leader and his cronies to be more green - then WE need to be more green as a nation. (By the way - Wal-Mart HAS jumped on the green bandwagon. I'm not saying we should all leave our little Ma and Pa stores and go to Wal-Mart - but I AM saying that Wal-Mart's ideals reflect consumer interest. So the interest in green is growing.)