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Artist: Coheed and Cambria Song: Mother May I [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" Prompt: Have you ever boycotted a company or product? If so, tell us the story. If not, what would a company have to do for you to boycott its products? Just to update, I talked to my doctor and he said to stay home this weekend and they'll do a COVID test Monday if I'm still sick. He said it just sounds like a mild upper respiratory infection, but can't rule out the virus, of course. It's annoying because I've been completely isolated except going to the grocery store (with a mask) for months. Hopefully just a summer cold or something. So, anyway... boycotting companies. Ah, isn't that always fun. The thing about boycotting a company is that you're like, "Oh, this brand is offensive to humanity so I'm not buying any of their products! Then you find out that brand is a subsidiary of a conglomerate corporation and you can't boycott them unless you stop buying, like, everything that's in the store. I mean, just look at this chart and figure out how you're going to boycott Nestle, one of the most evil corporations in existence. It is doable, but it's difficult, and that's just one of the major corporations that control pretty much all of our food. If you plan to boycott all of them for their egregious deeds, I hope you've got a great farm. This is a difficult topic for me not to soapbox rant about, but it's infuriating. These corporations act with flagrant disregard for human life. They're soulless. Nestle, for example, has been caught stealing and selling water that it has no rights to numerous times. Stealing from indigenous villages in Canada, stealing from drought-stricken areas in the US. They take the community water supply of these places and sell it for billions of dollars. It's beyond disgusting. Imagine sitting in a boardroom thinking this is a reasonable way to make money. I won't rant about every corporation that I hate, but suffice to say that I hate most large corporations. If you name one, I can probably write an entire entry of grievances. P.S. Bayer infected thousands of people with HIV . OK, focus, Charlie. The problem with boycotting is that these major corporations own almost everything you can find on the shelves of a store. In order to find things not made my major corporations, you can buy locally, which is great and all, but it's often difficult to find what you need, when you need it, at a reasonable price point. Also, try having things like internet without using service from a large corporation. Or getting medication without those dollars going to an evil pharma-overlord. You just can't. Sadly, small businesses are the easiest to boycott. Have a bad experience? Just don't go back and then that company doesn't receive your money anymore. You can't do that with corps that own almost everything. That isn't to say that you can't attempt to boycott certain companies, to the best of your ability at least. Maybe they'll get $5 from you instead of $30. Anything helps, I guess. I pay attention to company's politics. Company leaders come out and defend something racist, homophobic, sexist, or just shitty? Thanks for letting me know to avoid your product, I guess. Goya is my most recent one. CEO coming out to praise a president of a country with 140,000 people dead during the middle of a pandemic that he is still saying will "just disappear"? Not a good look. By the way, there's an app for this called Buycott . You just scan a barcode and it tells you which corporation owns the product and gives you information about the corporation + any sustainable alternatives. So if you are interested in "voting with you wallet" as they say, it's pretty interesting. And in their asking, did you see their lie The motive, true and earnest side? |