This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called “Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?”
I imagine “Reddit” will be a common answer. (And it’s one of my answers.)
Another of my answers is “Hasbro.” First Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) tried to revoke an irrevokable license and screw over basically all 3rd-party publishers of D&D content, then they sent literal mercinaries to threaten one of their customers over an order mixup that wasn’t even the customer’s fault. D&D: Honor Among Thieves and the latest Transformers look really good, but those are within the scope of my boycott, so I won’t be seeing those any time soon.
Third, Microsoft. (Apple too, but then I’ve never bought any Apple devices in my life, so it hardly qualifies as a boycott.) Just because of their penchant for using devices I own against me in every way they can imagine. And for really predatory business practices.
One boycott that I’ve ended was a boycott of Nintendo. I was pissed that they started marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though it didn’t have a name at the time) before the WiiU came out, prompting me to be an early adopter of the WiiU, and then when they actually released BotW, they dual-released it on WiiU and Switch. I slightly eased my boycott when the unpatchable Fusee Gilee vulnerability for the first batch of Switches was discovered. I wanted to get one of the ones I could hack and run homebrew on before they came out with a model that lacked the vulnerability.
Meat?!
Never met a vegetarian?
Not really, no.
Yes. I don’t boycott it myself, because I fucking love meat, but we need to finda way to make it more sustainable and less cruel to animals. (Not the murdering part, of course, but how we treat them beforehand.)
I fully understand why somebody boycotts it.
Yeah, that would be awesome, but it would be against the principles of capitalism- profit over sustainability, so probably it won’t happen soon.
Yep! You have to actually boycott it if you want anything to change.
I wonder if meat eaters think vegetarians don’t like meat? I loved eating meat, I hanker for burgers and steaks as much as the next man. I grew up on a farm, I’m not some bleeding heart. But I figured I gotta put my money where my mouth is, I couldnt say I was an environmentalist and not do the one biggest thing an individual can.
Yeah I don’t know if it counts as a boycott, I’m vegetarian but I don’t buy meat for our family also, my husband eat meat only when someone gift him (we are in a rural area so it happens)