To ask a question about boycotting

[mumtoateen]

If you, or family or your child needing life saving treatment, food (starving to death) etc, and the only choice was a company you boycott or Israeli produce etc, would you use it or continue to boycott?

abouttobeevicted - brilliant.

Disapproval of Israeli actions and anti-semitism are NOT the same thing; but a lot of boycotters do seem quite happy to use stuff from other regimes which are not democracies and also unleash weapons or judicial vengeance on innocents. Many Israelis can and are protesting against their government. Show me some other middle east countries where you can do that without being shot.

and if you disapprove of 'big pharma' whoever it was, then no drugs for you. Can't have it all ways.

this thread is about how far you take your principles. I know that Jehovah's witnesses have actually died due to refusing blood transfusions. So some people will do it. (and no, I don't think this is intelligent!)

I won't boycott Israel.

I am definitely not going to boycott Israeli produce

Wow people are being deliberately OTT in this thread. So everything has to be done exactly to the letter? We can't choose to boycott as much as we can? AND we have to boycott everything from every country which exploits people/is engaged in a senseless 'war'? Well, there goes my mistaken belief that I had the right to choose.

P.S. Firearms were invented in China, I hope everyone who thinks murder is wrong doesn't buy Chinese produce.

I don't boycott anything, but DP boycotts Nestle. If it came down to Kitkats or death I think he'd choose Kitkats though.

Good luck with that

so, everything was either invented in or grows in Israel??
and they invented maths too??
I will content myself with not eating their peppers or avocados, so far have not faced any life threatening situations that would only be resolved by eating peppers or avocados, so a minor inconvenience compared with having my home bombed.

I boycott Nestlé and that in itself is quite tricky, they own shares in several other companies (for example, the body shop, just a few % so I have to decide if I boycott the Body Shop too)!
I fun the best part of the boycott is talking about it with people around me. Goes like this: No thanks, I don't eat Nestlé products. Why not? Big breath WELL....
I think that is very effective in getting the message out there. Nestlé have admitted the boycott is noticeable in their profits in some countries :)
(I deliberately didn't bother answering they 'kitkats or debt situation' presented as my literal and logical mind cannot stretch that far fetched...)

*death

If a LO needed life saving treatment and there was no option of course I would stop my boycott. I would sleep with satan for my family.

Why boycott costa coffee?

It's not necessarily only worth boycotting if you boycott 100% is it.
Even 1% less sales is something

bello

I was being silly, I don't even boycott all Costas...just the one in my village!

I am not deliberately being awkward but what is the point in boycotting avacadoes and peppers I dont see what gòod that does it is only hitting the farmer surely

I can't get over 'I'm also considering adding USA products to the boycott'. I mean, really.

One of the points is that it may have come from illegal settlements - Israeli labelling does not distinguish between settlement and non-settlement produce. In that instance, I have no problem with hitting the farmer.