Have You Ever Boycotted Anything?

by Woman of many faces~Ijm~ Posted June 30, 2010 14:58:47

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user deactivated June 30, 2010 18:17:53

Yes

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Yes!
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Chockey July 16, 2010 21:56:20

Yes

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I used to boycott products made overseas..but it is hard now to find anything made here in the USA...I can still find items...but they are not the Items I neeed to use daily.

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wandering mystery aka Relch... July 09, 2010 02:31:41

Yes

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Ianstan BN-0 *Obama2012* July 02, 2010 04:51:09

Yes

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Lots and lots of things...

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Mrs. Eric N. Sex+draining=L... July 02, 2010 00:55:54

Nope

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nope

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Top Shelf® (oYo) July 01, 2010 20:05:32

Yes

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i refuse to shop at wal-mart or dunkin donuts.

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Dolly July 01, 2010 06:53:18

Yes

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♥ツ♫Mira Adorkable♫ツ ♥ July 01, 2010 06:00:34

Yes

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Jay0Byrd July 01, 2010 04:59:21 (edited)

Yes

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Yes and still do as do most of my Family to this very day, we don't buy Imported Cars or Vehicles in general...
Because we know how fast you should drive.....better than you do...

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Pele Emerging July 01, 2010 04:35:49

Yes

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I have in the past and probably will in the future. Sometimes, all it takes is an ad campaign that I find particularly repugnant. Sometimes, it's the philosophical ideals or the actions of the company. I know I'm only one person, but if I don't like the way a company does business, I won't do business with them.

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Ed From Ohio July 01, 2010 04:10:01

Yes

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I avoid GE products. They basically own obama and msnbc, nbc, and cnbc. They obviously put liberal and environmental politics into their businesses and television stations. They are part of this huge go green movement and have donated exorbitant amounts to the environmental wacko politicians and causes. Notice the windmills behind obama in some of his previous speeches--powered by the turbine that Ge holds the patent on. Notice the cap and trade "credits purchasing system" in place that stand to turn Gore, Obama, Maurice Whacko Strong into billionaires is founded in Chicago and bank involvement for that scam set up is also supported bt none other than GE.

So when I but headsets for my business and they try to give me GE I get somethingelse. Anytime I can avoid appliances or anything by GE I run the other direction.

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~BaiLeY~ July 01, 2010 03:10:43

Yes

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i am at this moment. animal tested products. and bp.

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✿✿✿RoseD1st✿✿✿ July 01, 2010 02:58:37

Yes

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The boy-cotters of Arizona,Hollyweird,Obama supporters

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Randy July 01, 2010 02:56:05

Yes

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BP

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Royal Warrior July 01, 2010 02:17:05

Yes

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Nestle foods for a while. Now, Proctor Gamble. Nestle was the biggest seller of infants formula overseas to the poor. They touted their formula as being better for babies than mothers milk. They ignored the fact that many mothers could not afford enough formula to really nourish their babies, and would mix it weaker than it should be. Resulting in many children being undernourished. Proctor and Gamble just ticked me off, and it'llbe a cold day in Fire Lake, when I buy any of their products again.

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Refuse To Be A SH Sheep July 01, 2010 01:54:38
Woman o... to Refuse ... July 01, 2010 01:57:20

Lmao!

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volley15 July 01, 2010 01:06:42

Yes

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Nestle.

The Nestle Boycott

Why:
In order to sell more of its infant formula in third world countries, Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. The free samples lasted long enough for the mother's breast milk to dry up from lack of use. Then mothers would be forced to purchase the formula but, being poor, they would often mix the formula with unsanitary water or 'stretch' the amount of formula by diluting it with more water than recommended. The result was that babies starved all over the Third World while Nestle made huge profits from this predatory marketing strategy.

http://www.breastfeeding.com/...
http://www.babymilkaction.org...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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Refuse ... to volley15 July 01, 2010 01:55:34

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Omg really? I never heard about that.....

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volley15 to Refuse ... July 01, 2010 02:23:56

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Yeah. when I heard about it and did the research I was extremely appalled. I stopped buying anything Nestle after that.

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Refuse ... to volley15 July 01, 2010 02:28:15

I'm glad you mentioned this. I'm disgusted. I just took Nestle off my shopping lists.

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sasquat... to Refuse ... July 01, 2010 07:25:59

Yep ... breastfeeding is the only way to go.

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Pele Em... to volley15 July 01, 2010 04:39:13

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The thing I found interesting during this whole Nestle stuff (and yes, I boycotted Nestle too) was that they sold no infant formula in developed countries. The three major brands were Similac, Enfamil and SMA. Later, Nestle did market Carnation formula, but during the biggest part of the brouhaha, they weren't even trying to sell their formula in developed countries.

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AL July 01, 2010 00:42:46

None of the above

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Bush did it! I guess that's as good an answer as any liberal anyway!

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fairiefang -annoying fashio... July 01, 2010 00:42:05

Yes

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Several things.

At the top of my boycott list-

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Alan_Scott June 30, 2010 23:50:14

Yes

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Sex

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Woman o... to Alan_Scott July 01, 2010 00:13:28

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Ali ~ In My Heart I Trust ~ June 30, 2010 23:46:39

Yes

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One of our regional grocery chains because they contributed to some wacko campaigns. Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.

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Jester June 30, 2010 23:17:14

Yes

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Yes, Obama since he took office, as well as the vast majority of his lemmings. They are just not worth my time.

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sasquatchette June 30, 2010 22:52:02

Yes

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I boycott United Way because they give money to Planned Parenthood and because they don't have good controls over their donations.

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volley15 to sasquat... July 01, 2010 01:08:20

What's wrong with Planned Parenthood?

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Ed From... to volley15 July 01, 2010 05:03:13 (edited)

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Planned parenthood is the leading provider of Surgical Abortions. It receives 1/3 of it's billion dollar per year budget($350 million) from federal govt grants so that it can pay for over 300,000 abortions per year.

Founded by Margaret Sanger, an avowed socialist hating capitalism even in the early 1900's. She wanted to segregate and sterilize those with objectionable traits and "limit" fertility chances for those less "fit" to have kids and preserve greater fertility rates for those "more fit" in the "upper classes". Maybe that's why the majority of planned parenthood business are placed in lower income minority neighborhoods. It fits her first pamphlet creation that states "It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things." and "The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."

Her close friends; known anarchists Emma Goldman who probably was linked to President McKinley's assassination also a communist hater of capitalism and one who actively tried to create anarchy in America; John Reed an American Journalist and communist activist closely related to the leadership of the communist revolutions over seas; Upton...

Planned parenthood is the leading provider of Surgical Abortions. It receives 1/3 of it's billion dollar per year budget($350 million) from federal govt grants so that it can pay for over 300,000 abortions per year.

Founded by Margaret Sanger, an avowed socialist hating capitalism even in the early 1900's. She wanted to segregate and sterilize those with objectionable traits and "limit" fertility chances for those less "fit" to have kids and preserve greater fertility rates for those "more fit" in the "upper classes". Maybe that's why the majority of planned parenthood business are placed in lower income minority neighborhoods. It fits her first pamphlet creation that states "It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things." and "The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."

Her close friends; known anarchists Emma Goldman who probably was linked to President McKinley's assassination also a communist hater of capitalism and one who actively tried to create anarchy in America; John Reed an American Journalist and communist activist closely related to the leadership of the communist revolutions over seas; Upton Sinclair known socialist; and other radicals.

That's just a surface scratch of who the founder was, her associates, and possibly the reason she was such a firm believer in abortion, birth control, and sterilization while placing her structures in minority neighborhoods
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volley15 to Ed From... July 01, 2010 14:44:32

I have no problem with abortion (am EXTREMELY pro-choice), birth control or sterilization if someone wants any of the above. they are all personal choices. Personally I like planned parenthood for they are places, and another resource for teens if they wish to obtain any of the above.

While the founders weren't exactly the best people out there the over all purpose for planned parenthood is a positive one IN MY OPINION.

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sasquat... to volley15 July 01, 2010 07:27:30

In a word: abortion. See also Ed's answer below.

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OLD CRACKER June 30, 2010 22:46:23

Yes

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obama and anyone who supports him.

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Nick~believe ^MOTOOP^ June 30, 2010 22:26:26

Yes

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I have not bought anything from Nike since they helped to pay for Tanya Harding's defense after such unsportsmanlike behaviour as having her oponent's knees bashed. It rather gives a whole new meaning to 'Just do it!'

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fairief... to Nick~be... July 01, 2010 00:44:23

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When I was in elementery school we had a speaker come in who talked about all the kids who work in Nike factories in foreign countries. I should probably start to boycott them...

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Nick~be... to fairief... July 01, 2010 20:06:04

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I never try to convince anyone what to do beyond following your conscience.

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pure_kaos June 30, 2010 22:17:08

Yes

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I boycotted boycotting.

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AsianGirl ^0^ June 30, 2010 22:08:14

Yes

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Cookies

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gregaj7 June 30, 2010 22:03:14

Yes

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I'm in the midst of two private boycotts: McDonald's (Brazilian beef, mad-cow); Wendy's (fired a friends son without cause). No more "Frosty's" for me!

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