Company Boikot

It’s been quite well thrown about recently that all open-minded non-corporatised people should do their best to boycott major companies such as the likes of Coca-Cola, Nestle and McDonalds. The theory being that they make a squillion pounds a second by exploiting their impoverished workers who work in dangerous conditions for nothing like a respectable salary.

In general I agree. Not because I want to boycott any particular companies, but because I much prefer, wherever possible to support the local companies who are struggling to survive. Things like milkmen, butchers and greengrocers who are struggling against the fierce competition and low prices of big chain supermarkets.

I did find it amusing though when I was staying in a hostel on a surf trip in Sennen a few weeks back when I saw this pinned up in the kitchen:

I don’t mind a boycott, but what in the hell is a boikot?!