companies and products to avoid

companies and products to avoid

The following list of companies and products to boycot is based on random articles and books.  Check the date of publication and source before taking too seriously.

Car companies

Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Daimler, BMW, Toyota and General Motors
- since 2015, have been among the strongest opponents of regulations
- only Tesla is supportive of climate policy

Gas companies

ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, Total
- leading the fight against climate change
- Exxon, Chevron, and BP each donated $500,000 to Trump campaign.

Finance

Bank of America
- financing Dakota Access oil pipeline project
- made loans to companies that practice deforestation

Credit Suisse - made loans to companies that practice deforestation

Goldman Sachs - financing Dakota Access oil pipeline project

ISP

Frontier Communications - fighting net neutrality

Clothing

Indonesian viscose rayon - deforestation
Los Angeles Apparel - flouting Covid protections, low pay
Forever 21, Fashion Nova, Urban Outfitters, Charlotte Russe (all LA clothing makers) - 85% of 77 random factories violating labor laws
neoprene - cancer from Dupont chemical chloroprene

Food

palm oil - deforestation
Coca Cola - funder of influential trade groups opposing climate change

Electronics

Dell - colluded with NSA to spy on Americans, hasn't yet apologized or created trustworthy policies
Microsorft - funder of influential trade groups opposing climate change
Vizio televisions - record and send personal data

Shipping

UPS - funder of influential trade groups opposing climate change

Health

Pfizer - funder of influential trade groups opposing climate change
Unilever is consistently positive.

Web

Yahoo! - colluded with NSA both before and after Snowden leaks even above and beyond other companies.

General

Walgreens - support of republicans for tax breaks