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What are ye Boycottin' today lads? - The Boycottening!

iamstop

Origin:

from the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), an Irish land agent so treated in 1880, in an attempt instigated by the Irish Land League to get rents reduced.

These are things in the media recently that I've essentially been avoiding for years anyhow:

Coke

Pepsi

McDs

Starbucks

Recently found out a hummus brand I used to get is tied to a certain apartheid ethnostate. Not buying that anymore.

How about yourselves? There is huge, often untapped, power in mass Boycotting.

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Furze99

Try to avoid Nestle products, likewise I wouldn't knowingly buy anything of Israeli origin for the foreseeable & likely long term future. There are other brands I take a scunder against from time to time. Hit them in their pockets, that's what is understood ultimately.

iamstop

Good call on Nestle. Hard to completely avoid them due to their omnipresence, but I do also make the effort to.

I stumbled on an app called Boycat. You can use it to scan the barcode of a product. Within seconds it will tell you if it's on any Boycott lists or not and you can decide if it aligns with your views and beliefs.

ancapailldorcha

Wetherspoons, Tate & Lyle and almost all newspapers. I'd add JCB but I doubt I'll be getting anything from them any time soon.

odyssey06

I boycott boycotts through a combination of unfussiness, laziness and stinginess. Anybody called Boycott is dead to me.

foxsake

anything that supports the zionist war machine.

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261106#Comment_122261106

This is the way

Cluedo Monopoly

McDonalds…poison

Heineken

Rhubarb crumble

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122260880#Comment_122260880

Why JCB out of curiosity?

Cookie_Monster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261693#Comment_122261693

this, presumably

https://bdsmovement.net/news/jcb-be-investigated-by-uk-government-body-over-evidence-involvement-israels-human-rights

magicbastarder

We have a bin storage thing with pneumatic struts which hold the lid up. One of the pistons has failed and I can't replace the thing because the manufacturer is Israeli (keter).

SchrodingersCat

Sodastream, nestle, all the toiletries that aren’t cruelty free.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261693#Comment_122261693

Brexit but another poster has provided a much better reason.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261841#Comment_122261841

If they tested dangerous toiletries on you, would you be dead or alive? Or a superposition of both until we looked in the box?

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122262095#Comment_122262095

I remember a friend of my wife's once waxing lyrical about an aloe Vera supplement for dogs that was specifically "cruelty free" & "not tested on animals"

It took her quite a while to grasp that her using it for dogs pretty much amounted to animal testing then 🤷‍♂️

**Edit**

As for what I'm boycotting, Sodastream are probably my most visible. I do have a Sodastream that I use regularly but my boycott revolves around not buying or using their gas or syrups. I have a Co2 fire extinguisher for gas and my main use is for sparkling water or fizzy MiWadi.

I still do a little consulting work for a Telco and by extension FSI here and unfortunately a lot of that revolves around Cellebrite and other Israeli tech that I have for years, been trying to get replaced.

The Cellebrite, Telco and FSI/Gardaí overlap is massive and followed me even after I left full time employment. The capability of Cellebrite gear for "police work" is built on years of Israeli actions in the occupied territories. The ability of the "government only" gear, to not only extract data, but to generate visual representation of contacts and volume of Comms, that can be fed back to a database of other downloaded phones and create absolutely mission critical FVT visualisation is incredible. I totally get what and why it's important but it's tech built on foundations of oppression & occupation.

I left my accredited trainer status lapse during COVID and fully embraced retirement, no regrets. My last taste of similar work was 2021, there are now at least a few alternatives to Cellebrite but, from what I hear from folk still in the industry? They are still the gold standard.

Birneybau

Brewdog at the moment

SchrodingersCat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261820#Comment_122261820

Would a replacement component from a different company suit? Like this bin piston is from some Chinese crowd: https://www.amazon.co.uk/HOOMWELL-Piston-Strut-Storage-Replacement/dp/B0CJB71WZP/ref%3Dasc_df_B0CJB71WZP/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697283154397&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7367661260738325788&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007864&hvtargid=pla-2249296382621&psc=1&mcid=503dcd0216df3a0dbee8ce12cdeacddd&gad_source=1

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261820#Comment_122261820

...I'm not sure who that boycott is having a more detrimental effect on

Flaneur OBrien

Starbucks, Nestlé (as much as I can), any Israeli linked product (just found out Sudocream is f*cking Israeli now!), Supermacs & Spotify.

They're either called for boycotts or my own personal boycott, which I know means f*CK all in the grand concept of things, but I feel a bit better knowing I'm not contributing to it.

Quantum Erasure

I've been passively boycotting McDonald's and Starbucks for years now

Hodger

Since the time of covid outbreak from China back in 2020 many countries had to go into lockdown the economic costs of lockdown and then the human costs of covid all the people that passed away due to covid some of us may of knew someone that passed away due to covid; but ever since then any clothes or electronics I check where to see it made and if made in China I refuse to buy I simply boycott; the economic and human cost of covid China has never compensated any country for not properly containing covid within its own borders at the very start that is one reason I refuse to buy chinese .

The last tv I had to get I got a samsung made in South Korea.

And then there is presenting the ongoing organized animal torture on Chinese telegram groups; I hate to have to post about it but this is just a glimpse of what I am talking about.

https://twitter.com/jongjonnu/status/1800931578425815532

https://twitter.com/NickLoconteJr/status/1799615317058228585

https://twitter.com/Julian02850161/status/1791475199638163659

Between the human and economic cost of covid ' the ongoing organized animal torture videos on Chinese telegram and human rights issues I cannot in good conscience willfully buy or purchase Chinese goods or products.

Highlighter75

McDonalds after walking into this kip today.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261106#Comment_122261106

You should look into stents that cardiologists use. Maybe you’d like us all to boycott them. Most are made in Israel 🇮🇱👍

thesandeman

I haven't spent a penny in Dunnes since the strike in 1984.

Lidl toilet tissue wipes since I noticed they were made in Israel a couple of years ago. They may have changed producer since but I haven't checked. I just get the Aldi ones which are British.

Francie Barrett

I have been boycotting the Irish media outlets like the Irish Times and the Irish Independent for the last few years.

I do read them from time to time, but I make sure to go through a proxy in order to deprive them of clicks and revenue.

elperello

You want to Boycott.

Boycott Boycott.

+https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/geoffrey-boycott-i-don-t-give-a-toss-about-criticism-of-knighthood-1.4013639

SuperBowserWorld

Guiness to Guinness 0 to No alcohol at all, at least most of the time.

Guiness 0 reminded me how expensive going for a few beers is, what a pain in the hole it is getting home, how **** I feel the next day and how sick of drinking I am.

Thanks Guiness 0, I'm sure this is not the effect Guiness was hoping for.

😁

SVI40

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261841#Comment_122261841

Every single ingredient that goes into all toiletries, no matter who produces them, have been and must be tested on animals. This will continue until a suitable alternative is found.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264105#Comment_122264105

to be fair, it's not as if i'm living a miserable existence because the lid of my bin storage thing doesn't always stay up!

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264180#Comment_122264180

Quite a few made in Limerick too, Cook medical are one of the largest stent suppliers in the world, cardiac, peripheral and drug infused. Granted asking your surgeon for a specific supplier at a time of extremis might seem odd but, alternatives are available.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264353#Comment_122264353

must be? i did a quick google and found this;

"In 2013 the European Union banned the sale and importation of cosmetics products newly tested on animals - or that contain any ingredients that have been tested."

https://www.independent.co.uk/infact/animal-testing-cruelty-free-cosmetics-toiletries-household-products-a8877221.html