Boycotts in Action [WHERE AND WHAT] ***FYI***

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[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Boycotts in Action

Included here is a list of companies being boycotted, who is boycotting them, and why. This is by no means a complete list. At the end of the chart is a list containing the contact information for both the companies and the organization. Remember, all the charges against these companies are alleged; none have been proven legally.

The Company Being Boycotted	The Organization Leading the Boycott	The Reason for the Boycott
Adidas - Shoes	International Wildlife Coalition	They use skins of threatened Australian kangaroos for shoe leather.
American Home Products (see below for list of products)	Action for Corporate Responsibility	They use unethical marketing practices to sell infant formula in developing countries - resulting in the suffering and death of millions of women.
Amoco - gasoline	San Juan Citizens Alliance	Amoco's drilling in Southwest Colorado tainted the groundwater
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) - gasoline	Project Maje	ARCo does business in Burma, and thus supports the brutal repression of the Burmese people
Bovine Growth Hormone (synthetic rBGH) - American Home Products, Bordens, Danon, Haagen Dazs, Kraft, Land O'Lakes, McDonald's, National Dairy Board, Nestle's, Carnation	The Pure Food Campaign and Food & Water	Milk and dairy products produced from cows injected with rBGH are potentially hazardous to human and animal health and to the future of small dairies
China - any product made in China	International Campaign for Tibet and Tibetan Rights Campaign	Boycotting all products from China is a way to protest the ongoing human rights abuses being committed by the Chinese gov't
Wal-Mart	Save A County - Boycott Wal-Mart	They engage in proprietary practices including unfair labor practices, exploitation of third-world labor, environmental destruction, and the destruction of local economies
Grapes - California table grapes only	United Farm Workers	Pesticides sprayed on the grapes are hazardous to farmworkers, their children, and consumers
Hormel - Dinty Moore, other foods	Austin United Support Group	The Company conducts unfair labor practices
Levi Strauss - jeans, Dockers, Brittania, etc	Fuerza Unida	Workers were not adequately compensated for job loss when the San Antonio factory relocated to Costa Rica (Thank you NAFTA)
Monsanto (see below for product list)	Pure Food Campaign, Pure Dairy Commission, and Family Farm; Mission Possible; The National Farmers' Union	They genetically engineer foods that may be unhealthy and conducts business in a manner not conducive to family farms; Nutrasweet causes a wide range of medical problems and has not been adequately tested; Monsanto has launched a "campaign of intimidation" against dairy farmers and processors that label their products as being from cows free of synthetic rBGH.
Texaco - gasoline, Havoline Oil	Rainforest Action Network	They left environmental destruction after ending its operations in Ecuador
Georgia-Pacific - wood	Rainforest Action Network	They are involved in rainforest destruction
Nike	Justice! Do it Nike!	Nike produces many of its products using subcontractors in countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam which use exploitative labor
Norway -products made in Norway	Earth Island Institute	Norway has broken the international ban on killing whales and seals
Perdue - chicken	Animal Rights International	They're charged with animal cruelty, worker exploitation, consumer fraud, and unethical business practices
Phillip Morris	INFACT	Through their ad campaigns, they encourage underage smoking
RJR Nabisco	INFACT	Through their ad campaigns, they encourage underage smoking
Proctor & Gamble	In Defense of Animals	The company conducts unnecessary animal testing
PVC Plastic - #3 plastic bottles	Recycling Advocates	#3 Plastic bottles cause problems for recycling efforts, and they are made with toxic components
Shell Oil Company	Friends of the Earth and Rainforest Action Network	Shell's involvement in Nigeria contributes to the repressive political situation there; they also cause environmental destruction

American Home Products product list

includes A.H. Robbins, American Home Foods, Sherwood Medical, Whitehall Labs, and Wyeth-Ayerst

Advil, Anacin, Anbesol, Bisodol, Dermoplast, Compound W, Dimetapp, Dristan, Preparation H, Primatene, Robitussin, Centrum Vitamins, Chapstick, Clearblue, Denorex, Neat, Outgrow, Norplant, Semicid, Today condoms and sponges, Chef Boyardee, Dennison's Chili, Cruch'n'Munch, Jiffy Pop, Mamma Leone's, Luck's Beans, Ro-tel tomato products, Gulden's Mustards, Pam Sprays, Polaner lams, jellies, and garlic.

Monsanto product list

Monsanto's products are aimed at farmers and wholesalers, rather than individual consumers. A complete list is available at www.monsanto.com . Its more well known products include:

Pesticides and Herbicides, including Ortho and Roundup; Foods including Equal, Nutrasweet, Simplesse, and genetically engineered foods such as the Flavr Savr Tomato and Roundup Ready Soybeans; Pharmaceuticals under the name G.D. Searle, including Ambien, Arthrotec, and many oral contraceptives; Bovine Growth Hormone (Posilac).

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Remember, all the charges against these companies are alleged; none have been proven legally.

AND THEIR BEING BOYCOTTED?

[Eala]

They use skins of threatened Australian kangaroos

Huh? I was in Australia a little while back. I was under the impression they were more of a nuisance than threatened. (Unless swearing at them renders them threatened...?)

[concerned about politics]

I don't see much I'd boycott here.
Those who deny the moral Boy Scouts, or Christian organizations, are a different story. It's reverse discrimination, and do not deserve the support of the American population.
This list posted here appears to be a list from liberal whining weenies. Sooooo.......forget it. I'm going shopping for Adidas sneakers, with pride!

[coloradan]

I don't see much I'd boycott here.

Levi's funds gun grabbers ... they're on my boycott list.

[concerned about politics]

Levi's funds gun grabbers ... they're on my boycott list.

And their business is failing, too. Good job, patriot! No Levis here either.(I used to love them. At one time, I would wear no other.)

[zoso82t]

Maybe the kangaroo leather is what makes you jump higher when you wear them! I'd use that as a marketing scheme.

[cgk]

Adidas - Shoes International Wildlife Coalition They use skins of threatened Australian kangaroos for shoe leather

Darnit... and I was boycotting Adidas because of Kobe Bryant! (Sixers fan here, sigh.)
I guess this means I can buy them now? Considering kanagaroos aren't endangered and they actually are considered pests in their native land for property and farm destruction.
Anyone have a boycott list of all of Jesse Jackson's coerced contributors-slash-sellouts? THAT list I'd love to see.

Mrs Kus

[cgk]

Levi's funds gun grabbers ... they're on my boycott list.

Wait... Can we still buy USED Levi's, since they're not getting the funds the second time around?

Mrs Kus

[Koblenz]

I'm sure that none of these companies really care that much. Also, boycotting a company because they use subcontractors in Indonesia is really just silly. Do these boycotters wish that no one employed people in Indonesia? Are they concerned that Indonesian workers are underpaid? They may be paid less than their western counterparts, but that hardly makes them underpaid. It merely means that either 1) the Indonesian workers are less productive than their western counterparts, and/or 2) the legal situation in Indonesia is such that the government could nationalize your factory almost instantly, or they could really give you a hard time. Governments like this are not easy to work under, and thus companies won't go in unless wages are much lower than in stable countries. Otherwise, it's not worth the risk training people and building factories, etc.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Hey, thanks for posting! Other than China(and Norway, if the whale thing actually is true), looks like I'll want to be buying from these firms.

[coloradan]

They wouldn't be getting any funds, but then again I wouldn't want to be seen wearing them anyway - and by not buying them in the secondary market, their price is depressed there too.

[American Preservative]

BOYCOTT MONACO!

American Green Beret veteran, husband, father of 3 young children, son and brother Ted Maher held hostage by MONACO for 886 days!!!

MONACO: FREE AMERICAN TED MAHER NOW!!!

[lizma]

Oh heck. This pretty much looks like my shopping list except for Levis, Kraft, China, Tyson's chicken and Procter and Gamble.
But for the life of me at this point I can't even remember why!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Thats why i posted it but most people dont pick up on that point GOOD EYE!