13.7.07

Brands on Boycott

  • WalMart (ruins U.S. industry while hurting Chinese workers as well; floods markets with underpriced goods until competing manufacturers go under; the stores are way too big)
  • McDonald's (cuts down Brazilian rainforest to graze cattle when there's plenty of meat in the U.S.; too many preservatives; generally gross)
  • Taco Bell (bought tomatoes from Florida farmers who exploited laborers—withheld wages, prevented them from leaving, stuff like that; also, way too many urban legends)
  • Tommy Hilfiger (sweatshops; ugly clothes)
  • Nike (sweatshops; will not allow workers to unionize)
  • Marriott hotels, except the Cincinnati ones (one of the biggest distributers of pornography in the world, except in Cincinnati, where public outcry led the Marriott hotels there to remove the porn from the pay-per-view offerings; Cincinnati Marriotts have not gone out of business yet)

2 Comments:

Blogger Faithless Soldier said...

Nice. I did not in fact know some of that. Well researched, coz. And I suspect that when boys ask if you want to go to McDonald's and you explain why not, they look at you the same way girls look at me when I start talking about the ridiculous ethnocentricity (which ethnicity, again? oh right, white) of Americans, or our wonderful corporate government.

15.7.07  
Blogger Christa said...

Where'd you dig up the info on Marriott and porn? My embittered Brit Lit professor mentioned that one day in one of his rants, but I'm rather intrigued by the real information.

6.8.07  

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