Mandroid2.0 wrote:I don't eat shark at all, for instance, because it's A) incredibly unhealthy for you considering the toxins have moved all the way through the food chain between organisms by the time the shark feeds on its prey, gathering and winding up in your body. B) sharks are being overfished and, as one of the top predators on the sea, their dithering populations effect the carry capacities and disease among other marine life.

you forgot C) and eating shark is weird.

ex-ecology major? why?

eephour wrote:ex-ecology major? why?

Technically, the title was "field biology and ecology." I'm also an ex-fine art photography major, so I would guess the answer to your question is that I am a masochist who enjoys debt and poverty.

Non-whole milk
"American" cheese
Hormel/Oscar Meyer/Budding/Swift/Armour meat products
McCormick seasonings
wall-to-wall carpeting
drywall/gypsum board

Wal-Mart
ESPN's original programming
Guitar Center
Abercrombie & Fitch
Ticketmaster (whenever possible)
Starland Ballroom

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

eephour wrote:ex-ecology major? why?

Technically, the title was "field biology and ecology." I'm also an ex-fine art photography major, so I would guess the answer to your question is that I am a masochist who enjoys debt and poverty.

lol, im on the verge of graduating and im starting to look at doing some field work to fill the void between now and grad school. But honestly spending this summer in the middle of nowhere collecting seeds dosent sound all that appealing.

A&P Stores is probably the only place I actively boycott and make sure that I never enter (besides some high-priced clubs).

When I was little, you would go inside one of these stores, and there would flies everywhere, broken jars littered the floors, and everything was spoiled.

We went in there once to get some milk cause my mom was in the area, and I looked in and said (at a very young age):

"Mommy, this place isnt even a real store...."

We got the milk, got home, opened it up, it was completely spoiled, and we went back there to exchange it for some cottage cheese. We got home and opened that up, and THAT was spoiled. We never went back.

Years later, Consumer Reports rated A&P Stores (New England) as the worst supermarket chain in the entire United States.

Dont do it.

- Chet

shell, exxon
monsanto
nestlè
del monte
coca cola
danone

oh and naturally Shure..

Tuolumne wrote:

enframed wrote:peets coffee

Not that there's even remotely a chance that your opinion will stop me from going to Peet's, but why you no go to Peet's??? Their coffee kicks ass!

peets coffees and teas are good, very good, but peets a corporation that drives out independently owned coffee shops. fuck them.

i also avoid most all "consultants."

virtually any corporate chain i boycott or at least avoid if at all possible. obviously my motor oil is castrol, my gasoline comes form a corporation. some things are just too difficult to escape for now. if a company's stock can be bought i try to avoid it. i'm not under the misunderstanding that i can avoid it altogether, but i try not to have direct dealings with it.

I have never purchased a Nike product in my life.

But I have eaten Horse on pizza... those crazy Italians!