Welcome to boyandgirlcott at WordPress.com. We hope to provide a list of corporates and their affiliates that for one reason or another should feel the brunt of a concerted effort to avoid their products. If these companies only care about their bottom line in a financial sense, then we feel it’s time to use economic clout to affect their business strategies. Feel free to nominate your perceived worst offenders with your reasons why. And the reasons can range from non-existent customer service, human rights violations, deceptive marketing, modified genetics, disregard for environmental sustainability or planned obsolescence, etc.
We want this to be the “go to spot” for concerned finger-pointers and later for all the people who want to tell us about all the good companies they know of, we’ll start another blog called “Spam Bin” where those/that company can be stored.
These corporates like to hide who they really are, so if you can trace your offender back to the mothership, the effectiveness of this campaign will be amplified. Silver shovels may be awarded to those who can dig up the best dirt and we’re considering rewards for the best mobilization techniques.
July 6, 2008 at 11:04 am
OK, let’s start this off with a list of the real obvious offenders and you can expand or supplement at will.
Bayer > AGFA >
Monsanto > Gene Modification Division
Cargill > butcher to the world
Wal-mart > purveyor of cheap plasti-crap
Nestle > global water vampire for profit
http://www.corpwatch.org/
July 7, 2008 at 3:10 am
We maybe should start another section of corporations who engineer their product to have a part fail prematurely and have that part’s replacement cost designed to be ever so slightly cheaper than to replace the whole unit with the updated (new & improved) model, either through the direct replacement being obsolete and unavailable (early model cuisinart work bowls)(canon batteries & chargers) or the part’s specification being so rare as to be exclusively made for that particular brand (water delivery hose in a braun coffeemaker). Now, I know that alot of makers of printers designed to be used with computers are cheaper to replace the whole printer rather than spend all that money on cartridges and the manufacturers of these ‘instant e-garbage’ need to have their names and affiliates listed, possibly in a separate section “E-Garbage”, where cellphones, Dingleberry®s and their ilk could be listed.
Alternately, if you know of any corporations that assemble their products from commonly available batteries, fasteners or fittings, we’ll make a separate folder for them. Something like “the SPAM bin” or “Recycle Pail” should serve nicely.
I had a pair of ‘new & improved” $13 dollar tyre levers with metal cores for changing flats on my bike that broke the first time I used them (their brand was called soma). I think these kinds of ‘products’ deserve to be in this section too.