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What's your list of banned brands? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by SethranKada@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don't keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don't make it there anyway. So I'm asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.

On the flip side, what's the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

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[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Jimmy John's

The owner has been photographed with big game "trophies" of elephants and a leopard.

TW: deceased animals

Snopes fact check: true

This guy pisses me off so much. Hunting like this (where it's private land, the staff do all the work of finding you a prize, & they basically point you at the endangered animal when it's time to pull the trigger) is so obscene, grotesque, unnecessary, and self-fellating. Fuck this dude in particular.

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Completely inexcusable. How people can get away with this kind of behaviour is beyond me.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Question: how is it different than the atrocities against animals most people participate in every day?

Answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's okay to have this kind of kindness and passion for all animals, you know.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Did you just "all lives matter" me? I do care about all animals, but hunting species that are barely clinging to existence is the topic of assholery in my post.