Boycotting Products - Serious Thread

[Tim]

What are your views about boycotting products or stores?

I could play all day showing stores like Wal-Mart, tech giants like Microsoft, and even our own government supporting things Christians might find offensive.

Where do you draw the line?

 

[Smellin Coffee]

If people want to boycott products, that is their right. People can use boycotts as a form of passive resistance.

I don't have any problems with doing it. My issue is when those who choose to , look down on or pressure those who aren't doing it.

 

[subllibrm]

Never have and likely never will. Seems like a pointless gesture.

 

[prophet]

I haven't jumped on the boycott bandwagon, choosing to buy what is sold in the shambles, as we are admonished, with a clear conscience.

However, when Starbucks, who has made $1000's from my patronage, tells me that my $ is no longer welcome there, because I support DOMA....  I'm gone.

If my wife, while we were dating, would've said "I wanna break up", or "I like somebody else", fine.  Bye.  I don't go where I'm not wanted.

P&G may be Satanists, but they want me to buy Tide, and I like their product, and  they've never told me that proceeds go to support idols.  So I buy Tide.
(Actually, my frugal wife makes a bucket of detergent every few months, and it costs us $12 a year, and my clothes smell like the dryer sheets. 
)

Haklo

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

Most of the stuff people want to boycott is stuff I don't buy, anyway.  And most of the places people say to boycott are places I don't shop, anyway. 

 

[Ransom]

Except for reviving the original Star Trek TV series for a (tragic) third season, has any boycott or letter-writing campaign against the large companies made a difference?

Subway changed the formulation of their bread, removing an additive called azodicarbonamide (the so-called "yoga-mat chemical"), based on a campaign spearheaded by the blogger Vani Hari, aka the Food Babe.

Of course, she is more full of crap than a portable toilet at Lollapalooza, but even the threat of bad PR (reality-based or otherwise) is often sufficient to persuade companies to make changes.

 

[Smellin Coffee]

Except for reviving the original Star Trek TV series for a (tragic) third season, has any boycott or letter-writing campaign against the large companies made a difference?

Boycott success:

Boycott failure:

 

[Ransom]

By the way, can we boycott multiple threads on the same subject posted in rapid succession by the same author? Talk about annoying!

 

[prophet]

Except for reviving the original Star Trek TV series for a (tragic) third season, has any boycott or letter-writing campaign against the large companies made a difference?

Subway changed the formulation of their bread, removing an additive called azodicarbonamide (the so-called "yoga-mat chemical"), based on a campaign spearheaded by the blogger Vani Hari, aka the Food Babe.

Of course, she is more full of crap than a portable toilet at Lollapalooza, but even the threat of bad PR (reality-based or otherwise) is often sufficient to persuade companies to make changes.

I ended up in anaphylactic shock, after eating Subway, and my respiratory therapist father rushed me to the ER where my Mother worked.
He knew that I would have died.
He knew that Subway caused it.

He sent me a link to the story, when it came out, saying "I told you so".

I never ate at Subway again, until this year.

Haklo

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

Except for reviving the original Star Trek TV series for a (tragic) third season, has any boycott or letter-writing campaign against the large companies made a difference?

Subway changed the formulation of their bread, removing an additive called azodicarbonamide (the so-called "yoga-mat chemical"), based on a campaign spearheaded by the blogger Vani Hari, aka the Food Babe.

Of course, she is more full of crap than a portable toilet at Lollapalooza, but even the threat of bad PR (reality-based or otherwise) is often sufficient to persuade companies to make changes.

I ended up in anaphylactic shock, after eating Subway, and my respiratory therapist father rushed me to the ER where my Mother worked.
He knew that I would have died.
He knew that Subway caused it.

He sent me a link to the story, when it came out, saying "I told you so".

I never ate at Subway again, until this year.

Haklo

Same thing happened to me, although my allergic reaction was severe but not life threatening.  But I knew it was subway.  I haven't had Subway since.

 

[Norefund]

Of course, she is more full of crap than a portable toilet at Lollapalooza

I'm stealing this analogy .

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

Of course, she is more full of crap than a portable toilet at Lollapalooza

I'm stealing this analogy .

I just read today that the resistance in Norway put a different oil into the sardine cans sent to Germany in order to give German soldiers diarrhea.  There has to be a good analogy in there somewhere.

I was banned from the Food Babe page on Facebook.  I commented that her obsession with gluten-free foods and the whole gluten-free craze was ridiculous since the same percentage of people who are gluten-sensitive have peanut allergies.  But you'll find a "gluten-free" aisle in the grocery, but no "peanut-free" aisle, even though a peanut allergy can cause death vs. gluten, which pretty much only gives you gas.  Boom, banned.

Well, it doesn't hurt that I referred to her as "Food Boob" instead of "Food Babe". 

 

[Ransom]

I ended up in anaphylactic shock, after eating Subway, and my respiratory therapist father rushed me to the ER where my Mother worked.

That's unfortunate, but it's not Subway's fault.

 

[prophet]

I ended up in anaphylactic shock, after eating Subway, and my respiratory therapist father rushed me to the ER where my Mother worked.

That's unfortunate, but it's not Subway's fault.

Is it Subway's fault that I'm allergic to that chemical?

No.

Is it Subway's fault, that they added a chemical to their "fresh-baked" bread?

Yes.

 

[Ransom]

Is it Subway's fault that I'm allergic to that chemical?
No.
Is it Subway's fault, that they added a chemical to their "fresh-baked" bread?
Yes.

It's not much of a "fault" if they used a generally safe food additive in the proper manner.

Do you know for a fact that it was azodicarbonamide from Subway that triggered your anaphylaxis, and not something else? Does other commercially prepared bread result in the same reaction?

 

[prophet]

Is it Subway's fault that I'm allergic to that chemical?
No.
Is it Subway's fault, that they added a chemical to their "fresh-baked" bread?
Yes.

It's not much of a "fault" if they used a generally safe food additive in the proper manner.

Do you know for a fact that it was azodicarbonamide from Subway that triggered your anaphylaxis, and not something else? Does other commercially prepared bread result in the same reaction?

I told you, I was with my Respiratory Therapist father.
We ate at Subway.
He watched my reaction, rushed me in, and my O2 sat was at 89.

There are several brands of bread that caused me similar reactions, not as severe.

I stopped eating bread that wasn't homemade a long time ago, now.

I read the stories of others who had a similar reaction, all who have some form of C.O.P.D., like I do.

Yes,no am 100% positive that Subway's bread caused the near-death situation.

Of, course, I was in an ER in Gary Indiana, which made the near death alot nearer....

Earnestly Contend

 

[Ransom]

I told you, I was with my Respiratory Therapist father.

Well, yes you did, but that's beside the point. I wouldn't expect a respiratory therapist to observe your discomfort and think, "Why, I'd recognize an azodicarbonamide-caused anaphylactic reaction anywhere. I'd better get prophet to the hospital quickly!"

There are several brands of bread that caused me similar reactions, not as severe.
I stopped eating bread that wasn't homemade a long time ago, now.
I read the stories of others who had a similar reaction, all who have some form of C.O.P.D., like I do.
Yes,no am 100% positive that Subway's bread caused the near-death situation.

In other words, you have a known allergy to an ingredient in commercial bread, and yet you ate at Subway anyway.

And so we're back to it not being their fault. Any more than it's Skippy's fault if a kid with a peanut allergy eats their peanut butter.

 

[prophet]

I told you, I was with my Respiratory Therapist father.

Well, yes you did, but that's beside the point. I wouldn't expect a respiratory therapist to observe your discomfort and think, "Why, I'd recognize an azodicarbonamide-caused anaphylactic reaction anywhere. I'd better get prophet to the hospital quickly!"

There are several brands of bread that caused me similar reactions, not as severe.
I stopped eating bread that wasn't homemade a long time ago, now.
I read the stories of others who had a similar reaction, all who have some form of C.O.P.D., like I do.
Yes,no am 100% positive that Subway's bread caused the near-death situation.

In other words, you have a known allergy to an ingredient in commercial bread, and yet you ate at Subway anyway.

And so we're back to it not being their fault. Any more than it's Skippy's fault if a kid with a peanut allergy eats their peanut butter.

I did not, previous to that incident, have any knowledge of that allergy.

After several years, I figured out that it was the bread, and quit eating it.

I guess with Jerrod gone, they need a new water boy?

Earnestly Contend

 

[Bruh]

I will continue to eat Doritos, Oreos, Lays use Tide and whatever else that will make me over weight.

I don't know what all the fuss is about? The end times is the end times people's!

 

[Ransom]

I guess with Jerrod gone, they need a new water boy?

They don't need a "water boy."  It's not their fault you're allergic to something in their food.