Writer's Block
Jul. 25th, 2010 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Oh yes. It's like a compulsion; I believe very strongly in responsible consumer choice. The first company I boycotted was Nike, when I was eleven, because I found out about sweatshops in China and child labour while I was researching the issue for a school project. Since then, I have not bought a single Nike product.
There are a few others, the main ones being American Apparel, because of the rampant objectification of women within their advertising, and Coca Cola, because of its environmental and political impact on the entire world - it's an enormous, out-of-control corporation that is responsible for depleting water sources in many third world countries, exploiting its employees, especially at the bottom most rung of the ladder (because they fucking can) and paying them a dollar a day while paying their head CEOs thousands of dollars an HOUR. They have paramilitaries that are put in place to kill citizens in order to stop them from exercising their freedom to speak negatively about how the company's presence impacts their home countries and native cities. It's a fucked up company. I would really encourage you to find out more about it.
I know this amount of passion can be exhausting to people who don't feel as strongly about these issues, but it's just a part of my nature. I'm very passionate about the issues I'm convicted in, and I try live my life in a way that reflects that. And the truth is, I feel guilty giving a company money if I know the deplorable ways they treat human beings, whether directly or indirectly.
Oh yes. It's like a compulsion; I believe very strongly in responsible consumer choice. The first company I boycotted was Nike, when I was eleven, because I found out about sweatshops in China and child labour while I was researching the issue for a school project. Since then, I have not bought a single Nike product.
There are a few others, the main ones being American Apparel, because of the rampant objectification of women within their advertising, and Coca Cola, because of its environmental and political impact on the entire world - it's an enormous, out-of-control corporation that is responsible for depleting water sources in many third world countries, exploiting its employees, especially at the bottom most rung of the ladder (because they fucking can) and paying them a dollar a day while paying their head CEOs thousands of dollars an HOUR. They have paramilitaries that are put in place to kill citizens in order to stop them from exercising their freedom to speak negatively about how the company's presence impacts their home countries and native cities. It's a fucked up company. I would really encourage you to find out more about it.
I know this amount of passion can be exhausting to people who don't feel as strongly about these issues, but it's just a part of my nature. I'm very passionate about the issues I'm convicted in, and I try live my life in a way that reflects that. And the truth is, I feel guilty giving a company money if I know the deplorable ways they treat human beings, whether directly or indirectly.
