Jesus fucking Christ. All of you are pansies.
rj's probably going to start boycotting coke because it was founded by the koch brothers
I suspect he refuses to drink Busch beer or visit Busch Gardens as well.
I boycott "fair trade" coffee because it costs 3x what normal coffee costs. Thats just corporate greed clothed in hippie do-goodness. My daughter and her friends go to Starbucks all the time, but I make it clear that she has to spend her own money at Starbucks. And she has shitloads of her own money. She and her friend make hairbows in their spare time. She got all her cheer squad friends to wear her custom hairbows, and then she sells them to everybody else for like $5 a bow. The last craft festival we had in town, I paid the $50 entrance fee and she and her friend made like $600 and they would've made more if they hadn't run out.
This is a weird, meandering post.
Coffee you'll find in coffee houses is typically either single origin, supporting a farm or region, or a blend from many sources but free/fair trade in order to keep it sustainably grown. And on top of that, the best beans grow much higher up in elevation, and are more prone to disease and are harder to pick. All of this drives up the cost of coffee on a per pound and per cup basis. It also makes coffee that is far better for you and tastes appreciably better.
For the record, I don't really boycott anything. I'm way to pragmatic and can't think of any company that does something so reprehensible that I can't patronize them. I suppose there are a few places that have personally pissed me off and generally avoid, but I wouldn't say I boycott anyone.
With that said, to what extent do yo boycott Papa Johns/Wal-Mark/Nike/BP.
Suppose someone invited you to watch a game and bought some pizza and it was Papa Johns....would you be rude and not eat it or would you eat it because you didn't buy it? What if you needed some gas and BP was the only gas station around? What if you needed anything and Walmart was right across the street, but you'd have to drive across town to get it elsewhere? I guess my question to you is "To what extent would you inconvenience yourself to uphold your boycott?"
but could be different from coffee labeled "fair trade", though. those things are not necessarily the same
i'm just saying that Fair Trade doesn't necessarily mean 'good coffee'. It could, and mostly does, but one shouldn't conflate quality with moral purchasing