Who Gets Boycotted and Why
Who do you Boycott?
3 mobile: for investing and thereby supporting the brutal military regime in Burma
Adidas: for using the skins of kangaroos to make some of their football boots
Barclays: for financing the Narmada Dam (India) the building of which will displace 2 million people and destroy a stunning amount of agricultural land and for financing the Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline
Body Shop: now owned by L’Oreal (see below) which in turn is part owned by Nestle (see below).
British Heart Foundation: for testing on animals
Cevron Texaco: for dumping toxic waste in the Ecudorian rainforest
Coca-Cola: In India – for causing severe water shortages, selling drinks with high levels of pesticides and polluting the groundwater. In Colombia for repressing trade union activity.
Colgate-Palmolive: for testing on animals – particularly household goods
Donna Karan: for allowing their clothes to be made in sweatshops.
Esso: for sabotaging international action on climate change
Iams: for testing on animals. Iams is owned by Proctor & Gamble (see below)
Kimberly-Clark: for destroying forest land in North America to make Kleenex and Andrex tissues
L’Oreal: for continuing to test cosmetics on animals and lying about it.
Nestle: for its hugely irresponsible marketing of baby milk formula to mothers in the developing world.
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Nouvelle recycled toilet paper: Nouvelle is owned by Koch Industries who make toilet paper from virgin forest.
Proctor and Gamble: for using animals to test cosmetics and household products.
Reckitt Benckiser: for using animals to test household products.
Shell: for exploiting the people of the Ogoni region in Nigeria.
Starbucks: for exploiting Ethiopian coffee farmers
Superdrug: for investing in, and therefore supporting, the brutal military dictatorship in Burma.
Suzuki: for investing in, and therefore supporting, the brutal military dictatorship in Burma.
Tesco: for use of Radio Frequency identification. and for the sale of live turtles, tortoises and frogs in their Chinese stores.
Unilever: for continuing to test household products on animals.
