What companies do you boycott?

I try to be a conscious consumer, but I cant check all products I buy.
Heres some companies I try to avoid.

Coca-Cola
- In India, Coca Cola has caused severe water shortages, polluted groundwater and soil around its bottling plant, distributed its toxic waste as "fertiliser" to local farmers and sold drinks with extremely high levels of pesticides.

McDonalds
- For millions of reasons

Nestle
- For its irresponsible marketing of baby milk formula which infringes the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.

Unilever
-Still test on animals

Do you boycott any brands and why?

 

Exxon/Mobil.
After the Exxon Valdez disaster, while Exxon did its best to evade the responsibility of cleaning up Prince William Sound it embarked on a multi-million dollar public relations campaign extolling its environmental consciousness.

 

KFC-
For using Amazon Soya to feed their chickens, thus threatenting the Amazon Rainforest. What's worse is that they lie and insist they don't, even though Greenpeace tracked where their soya comes from.

I boycott McDonalds as well. =)

 

the kleanex brand, they use ancent forests to make there tissue

 

Starbucks, it takes business away from cool coffee shops, basicly any large chain businesses, I like to buy local too

 

I boycott Starbucks and Exxon, too. And 7-elevens.


And WalMart - the evil empire.

 

As y'all sit here on computers full of heavy metals that'll be leeching into the soil and groundwater for the next thousand years or so.

 

wal mart, because i was an employee there for a while, realized how wrong all those big companys are !!!!!!!!

 

I thinks it sad that these companies eliminate local business because of the fact that they are a lot more atractive finanially... with low prices and great payment conditions.
I used to only buy locally but I am in a fase of my life where money is extremely short so I have to save in any way possible.

 

My mom and I are going to start boycotting wal-mart for the gazillion reasons that people boycott wal-mart. I haven't really thought about the starbucks thing, but that's true. It just sucks that I can't get iced decaf coffee at my local coffee shop.

 

Wal-Mart because they destroy small businesses.

The fast food chains Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's & Popeyes.

 

Walmart, for all the previously stated reasons
Nestle, Baby killers
No chain restaurants too, just because I prefer small local dives.

 

I boycot EVERY WEAPON STORE/SELLER

What about that

 

i boycott mazzerati, mercedes benz, seiko, porsche, lexus, fendi

 

i used to boycott walmart since it's becoming a fucking monopoly...... but that's the only place to the things we need in town for college.... so.... that pretty much had to stop

 

Thank you. We really need someone to point out what hypocrites we all are.

 

Monsanto... most evil company in the world if you ask me.

 

^Yup, they were the ones who developed "Agent Orange" in the sixties.

My list is big, but all save one have already been mentioned. My other one is:
Gillette, 'cause they practice animal testing.

 

I do not boycott Walmart, I steal from there... I think it's a nicer form of social protest.

 

fucking corporations. i know that statement might be cliche, but goddamn it.

the sad thing is boycotting doesn't really help. i mean, i don't buy things for the most part anyway, so it's not like i'm sacrificing, and i guess i'm minimizing the harm i'm personally inflicting. but not buying stuff isn't enough. it's not a form of protest. it doesn't do anything. you can't fight bad with nothingness. you have to cancel it out with ridiculous amounts of good.

and if absolutely no one bought anything from any corporation, what would happen? the people making the shit for 27 cents per day would stop getting paid and the businesses would find a new way to steal from them. look at what's happening with the privatization of water.

if you're standing outside the stores with billboards, that's cool. maybe 10 or 15 people will decide to buy less than they were going to, and with all the other people doing the same, maybe the percentage of harm we've prevented won't have a dot with five zeroes after it. maybe it'll have three zeroes, and we can call it a good day. if we care at all, we have to REALLY care. we have to be radical, and work hard, and risk things if we really want to affect anything. we have to be respectful, honest, and know our shit backwards and forwards and up and down so that nobody can convince us we don't know what we're talking about. we can't be satisfied with wearing a pin or talking to our friends about globalization or not buying christmas presents. we have to know that it's going to take a long time, it's going to take a lot of people, it's NOT going to be easy, and success is not guaranteed. but we have to fucking try.

i boycott everything. i buy things online from people selling from their apartments. i don't eat more than i need to, and i only eat foods that don't harm anyone, including myself, the farmers, animals, and the environment. i do the best i can in that area but it's hard to tell sometimes. i never "shop". but i don't really think that any of that means half a shit. there is so much more i want to do, but can't till i move. my point is, boycotting in and of itself is lame. but more power to you for being 90% more aware than 90% of the population.