You should be boycotting these companies already because they support extreme right politics by their ALEC membership:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Bose
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)
You should be boycotting Amazon for many reasons.
If you oppose private prisons, then you already boycott these banks:
- #BankOfAmerica (#BofA)
- #FifthThird
- #JPMorgan #Chase
- #PNC Bank
- #Suntrust
- #USBank (#USBancorp)
- #WellsFargo
Don’t think they are out of reach to Europe -- many European small banks that you assume are ethical actually outsource their investments to JP Morgan. Also, BofA uses different branding outside the US.
If you like transparency with food labeling, then you endorse labeling of #GMO food, in which case you boycott companies that lobbied against GMO labeling. There are hundreds of companies that fucked us over, but these are the top ten financers of anti-labeling lobby:
- PepsiCo
- Nestlé
- General Mills
- Coca-Cola
- ConAgra
- Campbell Soup
- The Hershey Company
- J.M. Smucker
- Kellogg
- Mondelez
Some of those mushroom into many brands. See the attached infographic.
So... Basically, what you are saying is just don't buy anything, ever?
Because it's damn near impossible to avoid Nestle, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Mondelez and Kelloggs.
Great idea! /s
The only way to abstain from ALL of these is if you buy all the ingredients from the store and make it all yourself, especially if you want chocolate and such!
But for 99% of people, this is not a financially viable option.
Just don't boycott US companies at this point, they are all entrenched in world markets.
Nestle is Swiss tho'
Orkla (Norway) has several chocolate brands across Scandinavia, same with Fazer (Finland)
Sorry, forgot that for a moment. I don't know why and for what reason I thought they were American. Good to know, at least, even if I accidentally buy something owned by them, I know I'm supporting European businesses, rather than American businesses.
No worries. There are plenty of other reasons to avoid Nestlé :)
Well, yeah, that is true. But I just know that Nestle is not American and that gives me some peace because money won't be going to American pockets. :)
As for the reasons, I totally agree that Nestle products are really bad in their policies and such.
I used to buy S. Pallegrino water but I momentarily stopped because I was under the impression that Nestle is American.
(Because this post is posted in a BoycottUS community and because I have a growing distaste for the US as a whole)