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**helen**
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Shops, brands, restaurants, Food from specific countries?
A friend of mine has said they're going to boycott Nandos this week, which I guess relates to stories like this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362445/Why-Nandos-chicken-isnt-wholesome-think-Celebrities-love-To-middle-classes-guilt-free-fast-food-If-knew-story-.html
A friend of mine has said they're going to boycott Nandos this week, which I guess relates to stories like this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362445/Why-Nandos-chicken-isnt-wholesome-think-Celebrities-love-To-middle-classes-guilt-free-fast-food-If-knew-story-.html
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What do you hate about them?
If Im shopping I wont buy anything but British Pork and free range chicken and eggs, but it wouldn't stop me eating at places which serve non free range or Danish pork.
I also won't buy Argentinian wine.
Unless they go to Nandos every day surely not going to Nandos for a week isn't really a boycott? Cos if not going somewhere for a whole seven days is a boycott I've got a list as long as my arm...
Vodaphone - same reasons
Top shop and the rest of the Arcadia group - tax evasion
Loreal/ester Lauder/bobbie brown/MAC/Avon/smashbox/etc -
Animal testing
I make my mum boycott Herbal Essences, have heard some dreadful things about their practices. She used to buy their stuff all the time, has switched to other things now
All my hair products etc are vegan so I guess I boycott a lot of things!
I'm sure they do nasty animal testing and stuff, will try and find the article I read and send it to you!
Yep, this - sorry my initial post wasn't clear.
By the way, the EU banned the sale of all animal tested cosmetics earlier this year, not sure if that includes shampoo, though? I guess not? :chin:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21740745
Fair point that I hadn't considered.
And those all-you-can-eat pan-Asian vegetarian restaurants, for crimes against gastronomy!
Drug wars, the Taliban, deforestation etc. Harm to people and the environment.
It's only really coca and the white poppy that add to the problems youve listed. Necking a few magic mushrooms, smoking some weed or having a bit of ghb are generally pretty victimless activities.
Recently when buying flights, I've been willing to pay a little more for flight not owned by a totalitarian government in the Middle East (although admittedly had the flight been massively more expensive, I would've just gone on Emirates). In the end Air France was actually cheaper.
It's really difficult to find out the history of any products here in Vietnam though. Most of the clothes I buy are fake designer, which means they've possibly been made in conditions worse than the clothes you get on the UK high street. But then the only other alternative is typically designer clothes or tailoring. I suspect tailoring is the most ethical of those, but that only really works for work clothes.
Something like rudeness can be quite an interesting one, is it a specific staff member or was it the whole store? Even if so is it reflective of the whole chain?
Exactly. I boycott a shop (local and not a chain) because of how I was treated. I wouldn't boycott a whole chain just because of one incident in one store.
A lot of my relationship with consumption is to do with keeping living costs low too, as I'm a part time Masters student and part time worker and I'm also trying to drop some weight. I have to admit I use my local Co-op sometimes, as it's 24 hours and I work nights.
I'm unsure about boycotts to be honest... If you look at markets from a wider perspective, you can see that actually, there aren't that many companies behind the scenes of what appears to be a huge amount of products.
Depressing as sh*t, but true.
I try and do things additional to boycotts, but that's probably another debate.