This
is a list of current boycotts, focusing on those affecting consumers in
the UK. Ethical Consumer would like to stress that inclusion in this list
does not constitute an endorsement of a particular boycott. Where possible
this site contains direct links to the companies in question to make registering
your disapproval even easier.
Take
a look at our Boycott Bush site.
New
additions as of August 2001 include Iams, Aquababies and Dior.
Airlines
for
transporting monkeys for research. Although a number of airlines have made
concessions, some still transport primates, including Air France, Air India,
Continental, Delta, Lufthansa, Sabena, El Al.
Contact:
British
Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, 16a Crane Grove, London, 0207
700 4888
American
Home Products
for
its cruel use of horses in producing the HRT drug Premarin and Prempak-C.
Brands include Anadin, Tramil, Bisodol, Anne French, Chapstick, and Wyeth
and SMA babymilks.
Contact:
People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Europe, PO Box 3169, London
SW18 4WJ, 0208 870 3966
AquaBabies
to
protest at the miserable existence and untimely death that is inevitable
for the baby fish contained in them. Web
page.
Contact:
Animal
Aid The Old Chapel, Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1AW, 01732
364546
Bacardi
for
continuing to use its Cuban origins in its marketing despite being active
in anti-Cuba lobby groups in the US.
Contact:
Rock around the Blockade on 0207 837 1688
Barclays
- see Burma
The
Beach
the
film starring Leonardo Dicaprio, for destroying the site on an unspoilt
Thai island on which the film was made by 20th Century Fox.
Contact:
Neil Goodwin on 0208 530 7577
Benckiser
as
part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals.
The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Contact
BUAV
on 0207 700 4888
British
Heart Foundation
as
a leading medical charity which tests on animals. (Started in February
2000)
Contact:
PETA
on 0208 870 3966
Budweiser
because
its producers, Anheuser Busch, own Seaworld operations which involve captive
performing orcas (killer whales).
Contact:
Cetaecea Defence on 01403 240170
Burma
is
ruled by one of the world's most brutal regimes and has used forced labour
to prepare the country for tourism. The boycott is an avoidance of tourism
and of companies with investments in Burma, such as Premier Oil
and its bankers, Barclays.
Contact:
Burma
Campaign UK, 3rd floor Bickerton House, 25-27 Bickerton Rd, London
N19 5JT, tel. 0207 281 7377
China
for
its continued human rights abuses.
Contact:
Third World Movement on 0208 208 2853 or rhino@dial.pipex.com
Colgate-Palmolive
as
part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals.
The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Contact:
BUAV
on 0207 700 4888
DaimlerChrysler
for
its continued failure to pay adequate compensation for its use of slave
labour in Germany during World War II.
Contact:
Boycott
DaimlerChrysler
Diageo
until
it pays adequate compensation to the victims of the morning sickness drug
thalidomide. Brands include Burger King, Haagen-Dazs, Guinness, Bells whisky.
Contact:
Express newspaper on 020 7928 8000
Dior
for
its advertising campaign which features models who "look dead, drugged,
greasy and are in or near cars", thereby glamourising drunk driving whilst
eroticising the victimisation of women.
Media
Watch, PO Box 618, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Tel: 001 831 423 6355 Website:
www.mediawatch.com
Focus
Do-It-All
for
having petshops in their stores.
Contact:
Animal
Aid on 01732 364546
Gap
for
the Fisher family's continued clearcutting of old growth forest in Mendocino
County, USA. Clothing brands include Banana Republic and Old Navy.
Contact:
Save
the Redwoods-Boycott the Gap Campaign, 252 Frederick St, San Francisco,
tel. 001 415 731 7924
GlaxoSmithKline
(began Nov 2000)
One
of the biggest customers to the Huntingdon Life Sciences animal testing
laboratory. Brands include: Ribena, Lucozade, Aquafresh, Beechams, Macleans,
Solphadeine, Nicorette, Nightnurse, Horlicks, Contac and Tums.
Contact:
Shac PO Box 381, Cheltenham GL50 1YN tel. 0121 632 6460 info@shac.u-net.com
GM
Foods
for
their environmental and health impacts.
Contact:
Friends
of the Earth on 0207 490 1555
Herbalife
Protein Shake
by
Bruno Heinzer products, because it allegedly contains GM products
Contact:
Genetic Food Alert on 01334 477411
Iams(owned
by Procter & Gamble)
because
of experiments on at least 460 cats and dogs, supported by Iams.
Contact:
Uncaged
St. Matthews House, 45 Carver Street, Sheffield S1 4FT tel: 0114 272 2220
SC
Johnson
as
part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals.
The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Contact:
BUAV
on 0207 700 4888
Levi
Strauss and Co
for
its continued failure to pay adequate compensation to workers who lost
their jobs when a factory was relocated to Costa Rica.
Contact:
Fuerza Unida, PO Box 830083, San Antonio, Texas, tel. (US) 210 927 2294
Lonely
Planet Guides
until
the new Lonely Planet guide to Burma is abandoned. Strong evidence exists
that tourist facilities, roads and other construction programmes in Burma
have used forced labour and involved severe human rights abuses.
Contact:
The Burma Campaign UK on 020 7281 7377 or Tourism Concern on 020 7753 3330
L'Oreal
because
of its continued use of animal testing in cosmetic products. Brands include
Maybelline, Vichy, Helena, Rubenstein, Lancome, Lanvin, Cacharel, Guy Larache,
Ralph Lauren, Elvive, Studio Line and Kerastase.
Contact:
Naturewatch
on 01242 252 871 or email info@naturewatch.org
Marks
& Spencers
For
its historic and continuing support for Israel at a time of escalating
conflict between Palestinians and the Israeli state.
Islamic
Human Rights Commission, PO Box 598, Wembley, London. Telephone 020 8902
0888.
McDonalds
for
its alleged mistreatment of animals.
Contact:
PETA
on 0208 870 3966
Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter
because
of its involvement in the funding of the Three Gorges Dam in China, which
has been criticised for its flooding of important habitats and the forced
displacement by the Chinese authorities of over 1 million people.
Contact:
International
Rivers Network on +1 510 848 1155
Morocco
a
tourism boycott for Morocco's continued illegal occupation of Western Sahara
(since 1978) and human rights abuses of the Saharawi people, including
in 1999-2000 those aimed at preventing the successful progress of a UN
referendum.
Contact:
Western Sahara Group, Oxford Chambers, Oxford Place, Leeds LS1 3AX, 0113
245 4786
Nestlé
for
its irresponsible marketing of breastmilk substitutes.
Contact:
Baby
Milk Action, 23 St Andrews St, Cambridge CB2 3AX, 01223 464420
Nike
for
its abuses of workers' rights in its factories in East Asia.
Contact:
www.saigon.com/nike
or Nike@saigon.com
Philip
Morris
for
its continued production and marketing of tobacco products. Brands include
Maxwell House, Jacobs Suchard and Marlboro.
Contact:
INFACT,
46 Plympton St, Boston, MA, USA, tel 001 617 695 2525
Procter
and Gamble
for
its continued use of animal testing. Brands made by P&G include Always,
Ariel, Bold, Camay, Clearasil, Crest, Daz, Dreft, Fairy, Flash, Head and
Shoulders, Insignia, Milton, Napisan, Oil of Ulay, Old Spice, Pampers,
Sinex, Tide, Viakal, Vidal Sassoon, Vortex and Zest.
Contact:
Uncaged,
14 Ridgeway Rd, Sheffield, S12 2SS (0114 253 0020), PETA,
POBox 3169, London NW1 2JF (0208 870 3966), BUAV,
16a Crane Grove, London N7 8LB (0207 700 4888)
Reckitt
and Colman
as
part of a boycott of products of companies which still test on animals.
The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household goods and their
ingredients.
Contact:
BUAV
on 0207 700 4888
Shell
until
the peoples of the Ogoni region in Nigeria receive a fair share of profits
from oil extraction, and better environmental standards.
Contact:
MOSOP-UK (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), Suite 3-4, Albion
Place, Galena Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 0LT, 0208 563 8614
Stagecoach
buses
and trains, because the company CEO has donated large sums to the campaign
against repeal of Section 28 in Scotland.
Contact:
Outrage
on 0208 240 0222
Suzuki
for
its involvement in Burma, one of the world's most oppressive regimes.
Contact:
Burma
Campaign UK on 020 7281 7377 or email bagp@gn.apc.org
Texaco
for
having the longest history of oil exploitation on tribal lands in the Ecuadorian
Amazon
Contact:
Survival
International, 11-15 Emerald St, London WC1N 3QL, 0207 242 1441
Tropical
Hardwoods
for
the destruction of biodiversity and habitats involved in their logging.
Covers all hardwoods except for those with Forest Stewardship Council labelling.
Contact:
Friends
of the Earth on 0207 490 1555
Turkey
a
tourism boycott over the country's human rights abuses, also more recently
regarding the Ilisu dam project.
Contact:
Kurdistan
Information Centre, 10 Glasshouse Yard, London EC1A 4JN, 0207 250 1315
UCI
cinemas
for
involvement in the destruction of community parkland and woodland at Crystal
Palace as part of a large development.
Contact:
community group on 0208 244 8399 or crystal@crystal.dircon.co.uk
Unilever
as
part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals.
The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household products and their
ingredients.
Contact:
BUAV
on 0207 700 4888
World
Bank bonds
to
demand an end to structural adjustment programs and socially destructive
world bank policies.
Major
institutions with World Bank bonds include Nat West, Barclays Capital,
HSBC, Goldman Sachs, MorganStanley and Citibank. Email A
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