30-08-2004 15:20									#1
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http://www.wketchup.com/

Funny.





Anyway. Do you boycott products associated with people you don't agree with?

	30-08-2004 15:22									#2
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	30-08-2004 15:24									#3
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No, W ketchup on freedom fries. It's the American way.

	30-08-2004 15:25									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Gangerolf Anyway. Do you boycott products associated with people you don't agree with?

I could.

But AFAIK, I never boycotted products based on what person they're associated with. I do boycott products based on what country they're associated with, and I think it is a healthy practice.

	30-08-2004 15:27									#5
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quote: I do boycott products based on what country they're associated with, and I think it is a healthy practice.

I agree, as do millions of my countrymen.

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So you don't support the idea of Freedom Ketchup? Commie!

	30-08-2004 15:28									#7
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Which countries do you boycott, Spiffor?

	30-08-2004 15:30									#8
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to them

Now, the evil Bordeaux wineries, who made too much money while selling crap, are whining they can't get the same outrageous profits as before

Kind of like the Saudis already asking for foreign aid, for when clean fuels will replace oil

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quote: Originally posted by Gangerolf Which countries do you boycott, Spiffor?

I don't boycott one country as a whole.

I only boycott highly symbolic American products, i.e. those that turn their belonging to America as something to be proud of, as a commercial argument. All products from Coca Cola Company (and all products looking like Coca Cola itself*), all Pepsi products, MacDonalds and similar fast foods*, and blue jeans. I boycott Mars company for another reason, I don't want to directly give money to a weapon maker.

That's about it, there was a time I was much more hardcore, as I boycotted all American movies as well.


*regardless of nationality: people can't understand why I don't drink Mecca Cola or Zamzam Cola either.

	30-08-2004 15:35									#10
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There is actually one good reason to buy Wketchup. If I lived in the US I might consider it if it wasn't for the incredibly tacky label. From their FAQ:

quote: What percent of W Ketchup is made in America? 100%. Every ingredient is American. 100% American? What about your bottles? Yes, every bottle is made in America, every label is printed in America, and every step of the manufacturing process takes place in America.

	30-08-2004 15:44									#11
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Mars, the chocolate company, makes weapons? I didn't know that.

	30-08-2004 15:52									#12
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Mars is a holding. It makes pet food, it makes weapons, it makes dozens of other things, even though chocolate is their most famous product.

	30-08-2004 15:58									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Gangerolf There is actually one good reason to buy Wketchup. If I lived in the US I might consider it if it wasn't for the incredibly tacky label. From their FAQ: quote: What percent of W Ketchup is made in America? 100%. Every ingredient is American. 100% American? What about your bottles? Yes, every bottle is made in America, every label is printed in America, and every step of the manufacturing process takes place in America.

1. I beat you to it, by about 2 days

2. Last time I checked America was a whole continent

	30-08-2004 16:01									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Mars is a holding. It makes pet food, it makes weapons, it makes dozens of other things, even though chocolate is their most famous product.

I didn't know this, either. Do you have any links or resources with more information about that?

	30-08-2004 16:07									#15
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If you truelly boycotted every company involved in weapons manufacturing you would live in a grass hut wearing a loin cloth. If you include Mars, then you are overlooking alot of others at that same level of committment.

To include every major French food distributor, who are prime vendors to the US Navy

	30-08-2004 16:09									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Mars is a holding. It makes pet food, it makes weapons, it makes dozens of other things, even though chocolate is their most famous product.

Now, I've never understood the point of this, or of the RJ Reynolds boycott. By reducing the profitability of that company's non-weapon (or non-tobacco) sectors, aren't you forcing it to depend on and develop the weapon (or tobacco) sector more?

	30-08-2004 16:16									#17
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd I didn't know this, either. Do you have any links or resources with more information about that?

Well, I couldn't find any links. I saw it in my books back in highschool, as they used Mars Company as an example of diversified holding.

I would expect Mars not to trumpet it, but if the weapon sectors is completely absent from their website, even while searching, I guess they are done with weapons.

	30-08-2004 16:20									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Patroklos To include every major French food distributor, who are prime vendors to the US Navy

To the best of my knowledge, Dannon doesn't make weapons. And they have considerably re-centred their activity on food recently.

But for example, Thomson is a French electronic company, which makes consumer products, and weapons. I have never been confronted to buying a Thomson TV or radio, but I think I'll prefer some competitor that doesn't produce weapons.

	30-08-2004 16:22									#19
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk Now, I've never understood the point of this, or of the RJ Reynolds boycott. By reducing the profitability of that company's non-weapon (or non-tobacco) sectors, aren't you forcing it to depend on and develop the weapon (or tobacco) sector more?

It is not an economic rationale, but an ideological one: I try not to support those who make the tools of death.

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quote: 2. Last time I checked America was a whole continent

You should check again.

	30-08-2004 16:55									#21
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	30-08-2004 17:01									#22
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Because they sell food to a military entity, which uses your weapons of death, for a profit.

Which offends your ideology more? Making weapons or using them?

	30-08-2004 17:03									#23
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I always buy Heinz. It's the only ketchup around that works well with an adults taste buds.

	30-08-2004 17:07									#24
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I eat my French Fries with mustard, which in another time would have had me black listed as a communist (imagine!).

	30-08-2004 17:11									#25
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Why so? I mean, ketschup is red, mustard is not.

	30-08-2004 17:13									#26
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All red blooded Americans eat their french fries with ketchup. It is treason to do otherwise.

	30-08-2004 17:15									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Mars is a holding. It makes pet food, it makes weapons, it makes dozens of other things, even though chocolate is their most famous product.

I take you boycott anything published by Lagardère or Dassault as well then?

	30-08-2004 17:17									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Patroklos All red blooded Americans eat their french fries with ketchup. It is treason to do otherwise.

I'd recommend French fries with mayonaise.

	30-08-2004 17:19									#29
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Freedom fries with mayo is good.

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Boycotting ketchup?