What are you protesting/boycotting?
In this thread we can discuss what we are boycotting or protesting, and why we are doing so. If you can, please try and give links to any disparaging information that you think the veg community should know about.
I'll start. I have been boycotting the fast food industry for a while mostly because of health reasons, but also because of the amount of waste they create. I also don't shop at Wal-Mart because I dislike their business practices and try to keep my monetary support with smaller, more local businesses. For more information, see the Wal-Mart documentary (Wal-Mart, the high cost of low prices).
I also have recently started boycotting Morningstar Farms products because of their recent conversion of some of their products from vegan to lacto-ovo vegetarian. For more information, see this thread: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=29638.0
Meat: Because I don't believe in making animals suffer and die for something that we do NOT NEED!!! After all, they are God's children too.
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SQ beat me to it! Curses!
Like Cams I also avoid fast food places and that was reinforced for me recently by the fact that I'm disgusted by McDonald's new ad campaign in the UK.
Nestlé products, because of their unethical promotion of their formula milk in underdeveloped countries. I have been boycotting them for about 17 years now.
For the above mentioned reason I don't set foot into Walmart. I also don't go to fast food joints and chose to support locally owned businesses whenever possible.
Fast food for sure I boycott--like 1000% Their negative impact on humans is off the chart and their existences pushes the demand for cheaper, fatter animals causing more C-FO's and feed lots. If I had one wish at this second in time it would be to blight ALL fast food from the earth.
Walmart--right? This place is stupid no good. End of story.
Coke ( Coca-Cola). Bastards. http://www.killercoke.org/
Huntingdon Life Sciences (and of course all animal testing labs). http://www.shac7.com/
Products sold by Conagra, and other conglomerates that are poisoning the world with their chemical laden "food" and other products.
Seriously...I boycott a lot of people/place/industries. We need to get a lot more involved in our day to day lives and stop letting the lobbyist decide what we are going eat, wear, shop. These companies support animal suffer, human suffering, and all around enslavement...and for money! Money! A lot of sick shit is done for the almighty dollar.
Go vegan, shop second hand, find DIY ad sustainable ways to accomplish tasks and you will live a more loving, productive life <3 <3 <3
http://factoidz.com/living-off-the-grid-diy-guide-to-transitioning-your-home-to-renewable-energy/
Amen Capture.
go capture!!
Yes.... I also boycott coca cola etc., chemical laden food in general, buy organic food and generally try to buy used, or fair trade products...
Nestlé products, because of their unethical promotion of their formula milk in underdeveloped countries. I have been boycotting them for about 17 years now.
Me too! Well, not for 17 years. But as a breastfeeding mother, I'm now up on all this stuff and have been boycotting since I started buying baby stuff (and Nestle makes huge quantities of baby stuff, including clothing ).
----> http://awesome.good.is/features/009/009buyingorganic.html
I boycott liquid cleaners (haircare, body soap, etc.) that state "final product not tested on animals". Cheaters.
----> http://awesome.good.is/features/009/009buyingorganic.html
I boycott liquid cleaners (haircare, body soap, etc.) that state "final product not tested on animals". Cheaters.
Right on sister!
i boycott many of these for the same reasons. also Silk products as they are owned by dairy giant Dean Foods and also because of this... http://www.alternet.org/environment/141134/why_silk_soy_milk%27s_parent_company_is_throwing_american_farmers_and_consumers_under_the_bus/
it's hard to try to be vegan and realistically boycott everything owned by the "evil" corporations, tho'. there are very few companies in the u.s. that AREN'T owned by or aligned with bad giants... https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html i mean, essentially if you buy anything made by lightlife, spectrum, garden of eatin', earth's best, celestial seasonings, imagine foods/rice dream/soy dream, westbrae, westsoy, arrowhead mills, or anything produced under the Hain Celestial group... you're supporting Cargill - the nation's top pork producer. :( and i just realized that Nestle produces Tribe Hummus... which i bought on a whim a few weeks ago at a winery when my family bought cheese to munch on. :/
oops... correction. lightlife (and alexia foods) are owned by ConAgra, not owned/aligned with Cargill.
i boycott many of these for the same reasons. also Silk products as they are owned by dairy giant Dean Foods and also because of this... http://www.alternet.org/environment/141134/why_silk_soy_milk%27s_parent_company_is_throwing_american_farmers_and_consumers_under_the_bus/
it's hard to try to be vegan and realistically boycott everything owned by the "evil" corporations, tho'. there are very few companies in the u.s. that AREN'T owned by or aligned with bad giants... https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html i mean, essentially if you buy anything made by lightlife, spectrum, garden of eatin', earth's best, celestial seasonings, imagine foods/rice dream/soy dream, westbrae, westsoy, arrowhead mills, or anything produced under the Hain Celestial group... you're supporting Cargill - the nation's top pork producer. :( and i just realized that Nestle produces Tribe Hummus... which i bought on a whim a few weeks ago at a winery when my family bought cheese to munch on. :/
oops... correction. lightlife (and alexia foods) are owned by ConAgra, not owned/aligned with Cargill.
i had no idea. :/
The big-chain-store "organic" brands, which here in Spain are often simply overpriced and falsely labelled regular products. There isn't enough enforcement of organic standards here so half the time "organic" in chain-store terms means pretty much nothing. Like regular battery-farmed eggs bought on the open market and sold with an "organic" label.
----> http://awesome.good.is/features/009/009buyingorganic.html
In typed out form (not all vegan):
Cadbury Schweppes: Green and Black’s
Coca-Cola: Odwalla
ConAgra: Lightlife, Alexia Foods
General Mills: Cascadian Farm, Muir Glen
Dean: Horizon, The Organic Cow of Vermont, Alta Dena, White Wave/Silk
Heinz: Westbrae, Bearitos, Little Bear, Westsoy, Arrowhead Mills, Debole’s, Garden of Eatin’, Nile Spice, Breadshop, Casbah, Health Valley, Earth’s Best, Celestial Seasonings, Imagine/Rice Dream/Soy Dream, Walnut Acres, Mountain Sun, Shariann’s, Spectrum Organics, Tofutown
Hershey Foods: Dagoba
Kellogg: Morningstar Farms/Natural Touch, Kashi, Gardenburger, Bear Naked
Kraft: Boca Foods, Back to Nature
M&M Mars: Seeds of Change
Pepsi: Naked Juice
GoodWill
I hate to say it, because just a few posts down some people said they liked it.
I have a few reasons for it. A good friend if mine did an externship at Goodwill. He is a Web Development major. Basically Goodwill just wanted free labor out of him, he wasn't doing anything for them that helped his education. Yet they were the ones that put their name on a list to get an Web Development student.
A couple of other people I know have done court-ordered community service for Goodwill. Both felt that were treated like subhuman. Now, I know that it was suppose to be a punishment, but both felt like their treatment was uncalled for. Also think of all the free labor Goodwill is getting out of people. Yet they still sell donated used jeans and shirts for $5 a piece, and more if it is a really high end brand?