Do you ever avoid certain companies / products and if so why....

[Lovin_It]

For those interested in the ethics of chocolate - this is a simple list of who is ethical and who is not

http://www.ethiscore.org/report.aspx?ID=214970&free=true

(marks out of 20 and the higher the mark the more ethical)

Check the link for how they assess each score

Plamil organic chocolate [O,A] 17
Malagasy chocolate [A,O] 16.5
Divine Fairtrade chocolate [F] 16
Plamil chocolate [A] 16
Vegan Organica Chocolate Bar [A,F,O] 16
Peter Rabbit Organics Chocolate Bar [S,O] 15.5
Traidcraft organic chocolate [F,O] 15.5
Montezuma's Dark Chocolate [A] 14.5
Traidcraft chocolate [F] 14.5
Montezuma's Chocolate 14
Ritter Sport chocolate 11.5
Green & Black's Maya Gold chocolate [F,O] 11
Lindt chocolate 10.5
Green & Black's chocolate [O] 10
Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate 7
Galaxy chocolate 4.5
Nestle Yorkie bar 0

Nestle ......... typical!

 

[Autumn]

Whoever mentioned LaRoute - I'm with you 100%. They lost my business for good over a year ago. I won't even open the catalogues that they still send.

Also 100% with the anti-Walmart crowd. It's always an unpleasant experience and they're so bad for small business.

I also try to support my local coffe shop but I'm not firm enough to avoid S'bucks if it's closer.

This is random, but I won't buy Steve Madden shoes. Perhaps my feet are strange, but both times I found their shoes to be the most painful little torture contraptions a woman could stick on her feet! Yeooww!

And on the flip side, I try to support local growers and organic food/household goods. Though I won't darken the doors of Whole Foods. They give too much $ to causes that make me sick to my stomach...which really defeats the purpose of food shopping.

 

[Arielaine]

I'm pro everything and everyone anti-Walmart.

 

[kisa]

I'm boycotting dunkaroos starting now, because today I was eating some dunkaroos (on sale 2/5$ BOOYAH) and the icing portion was like a dry clump. What is that? Dunkaroos with no icing portion? PREPOSTEROUS!

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