activistPnkBoycotting the US is silly. Boycott shitty corporations and you are already boycotting the US anyway, in effect. Nothing changes here.
It’s already nearly unsurmountable to boycott just the shitty detrimental corporations. I mean, how many people can boycott Microsoft? That means not emailing your government because chances are they use MS Outlook mail servers. As someone who boycotts all these companies and many more (Procter and Gamble, Unilever, etc), it’s a lifestyle change. Half the items in a European grocery store are from the US.
The only relatively non-evil corp from the US I can think of is Starbucks. I wouldn’t fixate on that. Focus on the shitty corps and it’s already more than most people can handle.
Why tf do you think Starbucks is a “non-evil” corporation?
Because it’s relative. Their competitor is Nestlé. Nestlé uses child slave labor and argues that water access is not a human right, while the biggest dirt on Starbucks is tax avoidance in the Netherlands and serving milk from GMO-fed cows.
And exploiting workers, interfering in unionization, selling trash products, and much much more. Starbucks is definitely not better than all the others. In fact, all of big corp is evil.
exploiting workers
Bit vague. I’ve heard nothing significant along those lines.
interfering in unionization
Maybe some one-offs, but if that’s something you care much about, focus on ALEC members. Starbucks never was an ALEC member but most large corps in the US were at one point. ALEC is a centralised heavy hitter in union busting.
selling trash products
It’s overpriced for what you get, which is why I don’t buy from Starbucks. Not as a boycott but that’s just the market working like normal. If you get bad value for the money, you walk. If we were talking about goods that you don’t consume in 10 minutes, sure I boycott designed obsolescence.
and much much more
Why not list it? It’s better to list it because you have a better chance of getting support for the boycott.
I searched my files and found some more dirt on Starbucks I didn’t know about:
- Israel – if you boycott Israel, then you boycott Starbucks
- GMA (GMO labeling opponent)
- Facebook – was the 12th biggest Facebook advertiser one year
- child slave labor (chocolate)
- CEI (climate denial propaganda)
- data breaches (97,000 records exfiltrated)
- deforestation / palm oil