Boycotting Food Companies

Posted by Traveller, January 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM

I have been boycotting Nestle for years now, due to their unsavory business strategies that have been implemented in Africa over the years, and I have to admit that it gets really difficult to determine which foods are from their company, since they seem to own so many things. Already, I miss butterfinger bars (I know, I know, it's an old guilty pleasure), but it seems as though every month, they acquire another company or product line, and I have to adjust.

Has anyone else ever boycotted a food company? What were your reasons? How long did it last, or are you still doing it? And does anyone else sometimes feel as though it isn't doing any good at all? No one else that I know ever seems to care when I mention it to them, except for the university where I got my Masters, which entirely boycotted Nestle products, and wouldn't even allow them to be sold or promoted on the campus.

I am just curious to get other people's perspectives on it, and whether or not it's even worth it, or if I am the only one that even does that anymore.

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