Another Successful Boycott!

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Whew! I am really breathing a sigh of relief right now because a few days ago I found out that the grocery store I shop at when I can’t get a ride (Kroger) was supporting Planned Parenthood and was on the pro-life boycott list! :mad:

I am a big boycotter. And it really ticked me off that I spent all that time and made all those sacrifices not buying huge brands like Kraft, only to find out the entire store was supporting legalized homicide!

And this coming month I’m going to have to shop there because I can’t drive.

Well, now happily, I can say that they are off the boycott list due to calls, emails, and letters from displeased customers (I didn’t even write to them, so I can’t take any credit for it.)

I am just so happy. And I wanted to tell you all, that sometimes, yes boycotting really does work!!!
 
I’m not against boycotting, I think it’s fine if one wants to. However, I don’t think we’re morally obligated to do so. I can go to a store and buy their products w/o guilt. What they choose to do with their money is up to them, not me. If I am paying for a legitimate product or service, I’m in the clear.
—KCT
 
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KCT:
I’m not against boycotting, I think it’s fine if one wants to. However, I don’t think we’re morally obligated to do so. I can go to a store and buy their products w/o guilt. What they choose to do with their money is up to them, not me. If I am paying for a legitimate product or service, I’m in the clear.
—KCT
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Ditto!
~ Kathy ~
 
I understand your position, that’s why if I don’t know, I don’t ask! But if I do know, I can’t in good conscience give money to some company that I know is going to turn and use it for evil.

I mean, if some guy came up to you and he was selling let’s say books, and you knew that he was selling them to raise money to hire a hitman for his wife, what would you do? Buy the books?
 
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I mean, if some guy came up to you and he was selling let’s say books, and you knew that he was selling them to raise money to hire a hitman for his wife, what would you do? Buy the books?
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No, I don’t think I would. That’s an easy situation. However, if every grocery store in the neighborhood contributes to PP, there’s not much I can do and I don’t feel badly about shopping there. —KCT
 
Life decisions international…I think…it’s either that or life dynamics. One of those. I got it through an email from a pro-life doctor whose mailing list I’m on. All it said was LDI.
 
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No, I don’t think I would. That’s an easy situation. However, if every grocery store in the neighborhood contributes to PP, there’s not much I can do and I don’t feel badly about shopping there. —KCT
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Hopefully not. But yeah it is hard to choose which big companies to boycott as many of them are very bad. Just trying to stick with the halfway decent ones instead is good enough for me. However I consider Kraft and Nestle quite evil, and I think I would rather go hungry than buy from them.
 
My wife has posted before, but this is my first time.

I’m not a big fan of boycotts. I think that they harm more than they help, kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I work for Ford Motor Co., and noticed that they are the latest company to be targeted for a boycott because of their support of “gay rights”. While I strongly disagree with extending benefits to homosexuals, especially while talking about cutting my family’s benefits because of the large costs, boycotting is not the solution. Why put more hard working Catholic/Christian families out of work? I would hope that more families buy domestic vehicles and express concern about such issues at that time, instead of driving up to a rally or conference in a Toyota and telling others to do the same. Unless a company is specifically oriented toward the gay community people need to take into account who will truly pay the price of a boycott.

God Bless

Matt
 
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Why put more hard working Catholic/Christian families out of work?
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Unless a company is specifically oriented toward the gay community people need to take into account who will truly pay the price of a boycott.
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…You might even be able to make the case that the good is coming through the evil here…but I’m not sure–I’m not a theology major. Maybe I should make that my sig…
Peace of Christ
 
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