Any good U.S. based ethical consumer sites? updated corp. boycotts, etc.

[henslee]

After this Sinclair advertising boycott I think like to be a conscious consumer. Sure I'll probably end up naked, starving and posessionless but WTF.

[alittlelark]

1. I'd love a comprehensive site as well

I'd contribute $$$ to it.


There are a few, but none are comprehensive - so far as I can tell

[henslee]

2. Cool, a partner in crime! Okay, lets use this thread to think outloud.

The same way Americans' "eating/exercising habits have changed dramatically over the last 20 years, and everyone's health improved, we can surely change our shopping consumer diet to improve our collective "spiritual" health. Could you imagine DU execising its political clout en masse?

Hitting corporations in the pocketbook seems a logical way to be politically active all the time, not just election time.

Its just a matter of being informed and then just practicing ethical shopping. It's really just good habits.

A place to start would be to post various corporate links which everyone can check out and commented on. The last thing I want to do is provide bad advice. So I hope folks will scrutinize links.

Okay, I found this link.

www.vermontboycottforpeace.org

Here's a list of major Republican contributors I found at (will post in a sec). It would be nice to know all the brand names that some of these manufacturers represent.

Altria (formerly Philip Morris/Kraft) $6.50m
AT&T $5.36m
Microsoft Corporation $5.12m
United Parcel Services $4.48m
MBNA $4.38m
Citigroup $3.93m
Pfizer $3.90m
FedEx Corporation $3.40m
Bristol-Myers Squibb $3.40m
GlaxoSmithKline $3.00m
Wal-Mart $2.85m
General Electric $2.58m
ExxonMobil $2.35m
AOL Time Warner $2.31m
Anheuser Busch $2.23m
ChevronTexaco $2.20m
PepsiCo $1.90m
Schering Plough $1.80m
Archer Daniels Midland $1.80m
Wyeth $1.74m
Alticor, Inc. $1.70m
American Airlines $1.62m
Ford $1.52m
BP Amoco $1.25m
Disney $1.25m

[henslee]

3. hey, found a site that looks cool. www.badcorp.com Also, I p.m'd you but

maybe my p.m. is not so important -- this www.badcorp.com looks pretty good.

[henslee]

4. www.ethicalconsumer.org