You should be boycotting these companies already because they support extreme right politics by their ALEC membership:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Bose
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)
You should be boycotting Amazon for many reasons.
If you oppose private prisons, then you already boycott these banks:
- #BankOfAmerica (#BofA)
- #FifthThird
- #JPMorgan #Chase
- #PNC Bank
- #Suntrust
- #USBank (#USBancorp)
- #WellsFargo
Don’t think they are out of reach to Europe – many European small banks that you assume are ethical actually outsource their investments to JP Morgan. Also, BofA uses different branding outside the US.
If you like transparency with food labeling, then you endorse labeling of #GMO food, in which case you boycott companies that lobbied against GMO labeling. There are hundreds of companies that fucked us over, but these are the top ten financers of anti-labeling lobby:
- PepsiCo
- Nestlé
- General Mills
- Coca-Cola
- ConAgra
- Campbell Soup
- The Hershey Company
- J.M. Smucker
- Kellogg
- Mondelez
Some of those mushroom into many brands. See the attached infographic.
You could do 100% perfect us-avoidance.
Or spend 10% of that effort to get to 90%. Then convince a friend to so the same, that makes a much bigger impact.
Dragging yourself out to 100% is just a recipe for failure in the long run
We should definitely set the ideological purity bar for this boycott so high that ordinary people can’t possibly meet it and they just don’t bother.
Boycott capitalism would be even more straightforward.
Not completely feasible for most people at the moment though.
I am absolutely loving NOT buying anything.
I only buy necessities (food, medication, sundries)
I’ve been repairing and repurposing clothes. Buying used items. Driving an awesome old car.
Every chance that I get to NOT buy something is cause for celebration.
Agreed (I don’t do all of that but generally choose not to buy of that’s an option).
Part of the problem is that some of the shittiest companies on that list are the dominant or only provider for some types of food, medication, and sundries.
But whatever you do, please don’t boycott Deez nuts.
We don’t need to go into all of these details. Cutting off the obvious few (like ditching whatsapp for signal) will get you 90% of the way there. But it’s a lot of effort to get to 91%.
Screw that, your energy is better spent elsewhere. Do 90%.
Agreed, this is very political and obsessive. Its not what the boycotting is about.
It’s a progression for sure. But there is no reason to draw an arbitrary line and give up. If you always look for ways to advance your ethical lifestyle, you will continually be able to feel a sense of greater progress from the former you.
I even nix whole cities. Oh, this city is uncyclable? Fuck that city; I won’t live there – I’m done with cars and the whole fucking car industry.
It’s not arbitary. It’s the line between reasonable and obsessive/wasteful
It’s the line between
reasonableconvenient andobsessive/wastefulethical^ fixed it for you. Everyone has a level of tolerance for inconvenience which can fall anywhere between 0% and 100%, to use your bizarre scale of percentages where a migration from whatsapp to signal is “90%” progress in solving the world’s problems. I cannot imagine how uninformed someone must be about all the surveillance advertising to think that 90% can be attributed to whatsapp, which uses the same tech that Signal uses. Yes, FB hired Open Whisper Systems to implement their tech in whatsapp. You’re talking about a change that is symbolic at best. It’s not even a fart in an ocean of significance.
.It takes 90% of the effort to get from 90% to 91%. You make a whole lot bigger impact spending that energy getting someone else to 90% too.
Stop pretending the world is black and white.
Learn how to save text files, convert HTML to plain text, and use grep; maybe some emacs org mode. It’s not that hard if you have some tech competence. The figures you give are for tech illiterates.
ctrl+F?
ctrl+F?
It’s becoming clear why the effort is so high for you. Loading every document into buffers where you can use control-f in each buffer to inspect each hit one at a time is of course labor intensive. Study grep and filesystems. You can get more info with less time and effort that way.
So… Basically, what you are saying is just don’t buy anything, ever?
Because it’s damn near impossible to avoid Nestle, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Mondelez and Kelloggs.
Great idea! /s
The only way to abstain from ALL of these is if you buy all the ingredients from the store and make it all yourself, especially if you want chocolate and such!
But for 99% of people, this is not a financially viable option.
Just don’t boycott US companies at this point, they are all entrenched in world markets.
Nestle is Swiss tho’
Orkla (Norway) has several chocolate brands across Scandinavia, same with Fazer (Finland)
Sorry, forgot that for a moment. I don’t know why and for what reason I thought they were American. Good to know, at least, even if I accidentally buy something owned by them, I know I’m supporting European businesses, rather than American businesses.
No worries. There are plenty of other reasons to avoid Nestlé :)
Well, yeah, that is true. But I just know that Nestle is not American and that gives me some peace because money won’t be going to American pockets. :)
As for the reasons, I totally agree that Nestle products are really bad in their policies and such.
I used to buy S. Pallegrino water but I momentarily stopped because I was under the impression that Nestle is American.
(Because this post is posted in a BoycottUS community and because I have a growing distaste for the US as a whole)
So… Basically, what you are saying is just don’t buy anything, ever?
The less disciplined folks who still at least have enough constitution to boycott will patronize the lesser of evils. If you have a bit more self control, of course you can nix a whole category of whatever product.
Because it’s damn near impossible to avoid Nestle, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Mondelez and Kelloggs.
I have to say if you struggle to avoid those brands you have an underdeveloped discipline and self control. Or if your problem is merely tracking all the brands, it’s a memory or attention deficeit. There are knock-off brands for most of it – which are always substantially cheaper. If you cannot find a knock-off Twix or whatever you think you can’t live without, shoplift it. I’m happy to buy Nestlé and Mondelez products from shoplifters.
The only way to abstain from ALL of these is if you buy all the ingredients from the store and make it all yourself, especially if you want chocolate and such!
It’s easier to find knock-offs or shoplifters in some cases. But indeed making it yourself is a decent approach. Instead of buying General Mills pancake mix, buy flour, baking soda, VegEgg (or eggs), and baking powder instead. It’s not going to kill you to give up a minuscule bit of convenience and add 2 or 3 more ingredients. If you make your own salsa and ketchup, you’ll find that what you make is better tailored to your taste than the junk that they try to make for the avg pallet.
But for 99% of people, this is not a financially viable option.
99% of the time it’s the other way around. Buying knock-offs, shoplifting, or buying from shoplifters is far cheaper than a lifestyle of brand loyalty. These brands advertise the most and the products have the highest prices.
“If you cannot find a knock-off Twix or whatever you think you can’t live without, shoplift it.”
So your suggestion is “If you can’t buy it, just steal it bro”
Nice thinking lol.
As for the brands, you have absolutely NO IDEA just how deeply rooted all of these brands are. Especially Coca-Cola and the bunch. Up until today, I learned that Coca-Cola owns a very BIG, bottled water brand where I live. And it is not even listed on your infographic.
“Memory deficit” sorry, mate, but this is just not really a memory issue, there is simply too much brands for one person to keep up. I will be opening up my phone 20 times a day just so I can make sure that I don’t buy from any of those, and yet still accidentally buy from them. I could be at the grocery store tomorrow, buying milk that looks like a local brand but secretly it’s owned by one of the ones listed. Because the European Country I’M from is almost entirely unimportant and therefore the brands in it go unnoticed, so there’s no telling of who’s the real owner of the brands in my local grocery store.
I believe in the boycott and I am sure it is going to work. I have almost given up all of my US company consumption. A few exceptions still exist, obviously, but they are impossible to avoid nowadays.
Boycotting US companies is more than enough for me, and my main goal as of right now. Protesting about terrible companies, while certainly a good thing, and I wish I had the willpower to quit them fully, is not my concern at the moment.
I stopped drinking Sprite, Fanta, Coca-Cola, Mezzo Mix and the water brand Coca-Cola bought, as well as Fuzetea. And if I have a chocolate craving, I just buy from Lidl’s homebrand chocolate or Kinder Chocolate if I really want it.
I’ve stopped relying on U.S big tech as much, mainly: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Scamazon and Facebook. I don’t use (F)Elon Musk’s (e)X and for my music? I listen to it through Spotify for commercial ones and SoundCloud for underground people or straight up buy it from Bandcamp.
I don’t eat cereal or any of the “brand names” anymore. I’m just saying, that fusing two boycotts into one is very difficult unless you are absolutely dedicated, and the average person just does not care enough about either boycott.
Just ask my mom or all of my friends. They’ll tell you that they think it’s stupid OR that they can’t live without XYZ product, which is American.
Sorry for the long rant
So your suggestion is “If you can’t buy it, just steal it bro”
Of course. You’re not grasping the point of boycotts and how they work. It doesn’t matter what you consume. It matters what you buy; and who you feed profit to (including data). Stealing Twix is even more effective than avoiding it because not only do you deny them your business, you also cost them.
As for the brands, you have absolutely NO IDEA just how deeply rooted all of these brands are.
Make all the excuses you want for lack of discipline. For me it’s worthless. You’re just inspiring other pushovers who don’t have enough self-control to give up their Apple Jacks.
buying milk that looks like a local brand but secretly it’s owned by one of the ones listed.
Claiming that it’s okay to do nothing because you don’t have full transparency on all products… not sure who that excuse fools. You have the infographic that gives enough coverage to be able to make the most ethical decisions most of the time.
And if I have a chocolate craving, I just buy from Lidl’s homebrand chocolate or Kinder Chocolate if I really want it.
So you are okay with Lidl’s ties to Israel? That when customers boycotted Israeli produce (often grown on Palestine land), Lidl falsified the source as a different origin… you okay w/that?
for fun - - what’s the worst thing each of these have done
I’m not going to dig up my notes or look stuff up but off the top of my head:
- FedEx ships shark fins, slave dolphins, and hunting trophies.
- Motorola supplies the IDF (Israeli military)
- Chevron got caught in project cloakroom, where they spent $100k to arrange secret meetings between large corps and law makers
- Sony got caught putting GPL code in their DRM code
- Boeing obviously prioritized money above lives when it decided to conceal known safety defects to avoid training pilots, which led to many deaths.
- Nestlé (Swiss company) sold dodgy baby formula in a scandal that caused infant deaths
- Pepsi is the worlds biggest consumer of palm oil (deforestation)
- Coca cola sponsors rodeos in Texas, thus cruelty to animals. It is also a big palm oil consumer
Tech companies and banks have such a long list of wrong doing I can’t be bothered to list it here and now. Hard to say with each company what is the worst act. Though I will say that Microsoft sold s/w licenses to African schools that it knew did not even have computers, then gave a kickback to the school admins who arranged the deals.
If you oppose technofeudalism and surveillance advertising, then you already boycott these tech giants:
- Cloudflare
- Microsoft
- Amazon
- Apple
You forgot the “now can you pretty please stop the boycot” at the end of your talk
It’s the same thing… Life in the USA is so comercialized, every possible interaction with the land or its people means paying money to American corporations
It’s already nearly unsurmountable to boycott just the shitty detrimental corporations. I mean, how many people can boycott Microsoft? That means not emailing your government because chances are they use MS Outlook mail servers. As someone who boycotts all these companies and many more (Procter and Gamble, Unilever, etc), it’s a lifestyle change. Half the items in a European grocery store are from the US.
The only relatively non-evil corp from the US I can think of is Starbucks. I wouldn’t fixate on that. Focus on the shitty corps and it’s already more than most people can handle.
Why tf do you think Starbucks is a “non-evil” corporation?
Because it’s relative when boycotting. Why did you omit relative from your quote? Their competitor is Nestlé. Nestlé uses child slave labor, fights GMO-labeling, argues that water access is not a human right, among copious other shit, while the biggest dirt on Starbucks is tax avoidance in the Netherlands and serving milk from GMO-fed cows. Starbucks is one of the most ethical corporations of its size in the US.
Technically Nestlé is Swiss but nonetheless they are one of the worst, up there with Bayer-Monsanto and DuPont.
And exploiting workers, interfering in unionization, selling trash products, and much much more. Starbucks is definitely not better than all the others. In fact, all of big corp is evil.
exploiting workers
Bit vague. I’ve heard nothing significant along those lines.
interfering in unionization
Maybe some one-offs, but if that’s something you care much about, focus on ALEC members. Starbucks never was an ALEC member but most large corps in the US were at one point. ALEC is a centralised heavy hitter in union busting. It is the anti-union machinery in the US that any corporation against unions joins. It’s the main reason FedEx and UPS joined ALEC.
selling trash products
It’s overpriced for what you get, which is why I don’t buy from Starbucks. Not as a boycott but that’s just the market working like normal. If you get bad value for the money, you walk. If we were talking about goods that you don’t consume in 10 minutes, sure I boycott shit like designed obsolescence.
and much much more
Why not list it? It’s better to list it because you have a better chance of getting support for the boycott.
I searched my files and found some more dirt on Starbucks I didn’t know about:
- Israel – if you boycott Israel, then you boycott Starbucks
- GMA (GMO labeling opponent)
- Facebook – was the 12th biggest Facebook advertiser in 2012 or 2013
- child slave labor (chocolate)
- CEI (climate denial propaganda)
- data breaches (97,000 records exfiltrated)
- deforestation / palm oil
I’ve found that not many food items in my local shops are american, most of them are in fact European already. Especially if you buy the low price brands/the stores own brands. It’s very simple and affordable to deal with. However, the switch to linux instead of windows, has been proven to be more difficult for me. I haven’t done it yet. I have flashed the drive and tested, but not committed. This is, however, something I really want to do. Due to ethical reasons. However, I’m finding the discussion to move more business to Europe encouraging. To have european alternatives to credit cards and so forth. It is good that Europe is finally taking action. We do need to have the discussion about electricity and oil and gas though. If we choose to switch over to more EV’s we will need to produce more electricity, quickly. There are fast and easy green ways to do this. And we need to push for this. Boycotting little ol’ companies is a fart in the ocean of what we actually import. So I’d say, take it with a grain of salt. Do what you can. But have the real discussions. We are boycotting to send a message. But eventually we will have to think about the real issues, just like Europe should’ve done many years ago.
Don’t get distracted.
I think its a bit silly to think of a boycott in terms of things other people use. So don’t run exchange for you private mail server and sure you can petition your government not to use microsoft but you are not falling to boycott microsoft because document you made in libre office and attached to an email you sent on your linux mahine was recieved by an exchange server.
you are not falling to boycott microsoft because document you made in libre office and attached to an email you sent on your linux mahine was recieved by an exchange server.
Of course it’s a failure to boycott. Every time you send email to a Microsoft recipient, you feed profitable data to the MS ad surveillance machine. You also open the door to give the recipient an email address so when they reply you effectively facilitate more food to MS to the extent that you have no control over. And worse, you also signal to the recipient that their email setup works… that it serves them and rewards their choice.
If you boycott MS effectively, then you use snail mail (absent other channels). You feed nothing to MS and block your recipient from using you to feed MS more. You also give badly needed help to the postal service. Look what happened to Denmark. They lost the option to boycott MS. Those people will soon be entirely disempowered, forced to support whatever tech giant naive recipients choose.
Microsoft loves it that you think you can simply avoid running some of their binary code and work under the illusion that you are not supporting MS.
As a person in the tech space, let me give you my opinion on all of this.
“Of course it’s a failure to boycott. Every time you send email to a Microsoft recipient, you feed profitable data to the MS ad surveillance machine.”
It’s not, because YOU are the one boycotting and not the other user. If you can convince everyone to ditch GMail, Microsoft Outlook, AOL, Yahoo or others, then yeah, you guys are boycotting well. But if the end user of something YOU sent doesn’t boycott, they have no reason to change their client and it is not a failed boycott. Because even if one user boycotts, it is still better if no one boycotted.
The end user would be inconveniencing themselves by communicating with you, because you decided to use something else and force them to use that same thing with you. Imagine this, you use Email Client 1 but the user you sent the email to, uses Corporate Mail 1. Are you going to tell the user that in order to communicate with you they should completely ditch Corporate Mail 1 and use Email Client 1? Don’t you think that is being an inconvenience?
This almost makes me think of some Vegan, animal rights activists, which will tell you how terrible you are for eating meat.
Also, unfortunately, Microsoft and Apple are the industry standards for when it comes to Personal Computing and Workstations.
“If you boycott MS effectively, then you use snail mail (absent other channels). You feed nothing to MS and block your recipient from using you to feed MS more.”
Imagine using snail mail in the digital age to send important documents that need to be signed by tomorrow. Do you realize just how much time and money would take to send a letter from, say, Poland to France?
Not a chance, especially not for critical things.
Using something like Proton would definitely help make things more secure AND less money for the U.S, but how many people do you know that use Proton Mail? 2? 5? 10?
Fact of the matter is, some companies are unavoidable, especially in the workplace.
Don’t inconvenience your colleagues by forcing them to use a different client than what they are used to already. Or, if you want to introduce a new provider, introduce it slowly. Give people the time they need to let it settle in better.
I will also say something that was said here earlier, this way of thinking is incredibly “purist” and too much “perfectionism”
Don’t let “perfect” get in the way of “Good”
People are already struggling to boycott US companies, let alone this purist version you have here.
Also, forgot to add…
If you want to avoid Microsoft and Google, good luck with that because a vast majority of search engines use either Microsoft’s Bing API or Google’s API.
And in order to make a search engine that is not tied with Google or Microsoft, it has to be self-hosted, self-coded and completely self-reliant.
If you want to avoid Microsoft and Google, good luck with that because a vast majority of search engines use either Microsoft’s Bing API or Google’s API.
That’s an easy one. For the past several years, this was the absolute best:
ombrelo.im5wixghmfmt7gf7wb4xrgdm6byx2gj26zn47da6nwo7xvybgxnqryid.onion
That service scraped from Google and Bing thus did not finance them. It also filtered out Cloudflare resuits. It’s gone now, but there are countless other instances which do not use the MS or Google API (which feeds them). Most searx instances scrape the results, which ultimately costs MS and Google.
It’s not, because YOU are the one boycotting and not the other user.
No you are not. As long as you feed Microsoft, you are not boycotting. It’s the opposite of boycotting.
But if the end user of something YOU sent doesn’t boycott, they have no reason to change their client and it is not a failed boycott.
It’s a fail because whatever you transmit to an MS user feeds MS with marketing data.
Because even if one user boycotts, it is still better if no one boycotted.
A conversation between two people with MS as an evesdropper is not a boycott. It’s two people feeding MS and helping MS profit.
Imagine this, you use Email Client 1 but the user you sent the email to, uses Corporate Mail 1. Are you going to tell the user that in order to communicate with you they should completely ditch Corporate Mail 1 and use Email Client 1? Don’t you think that is being an inconvenience?
And? Of course it’s an inconvenience. Boycotts are inherently inconvenient. If you prioritize convenience, that’s not activism and you’re not boycotting. You’re just doing what the normal market is designed for – exploiting your addiction to convenience. I suggest reading Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu.
Also, unfortunately, Microsoft and Apple are the industry standards for when it comes to Personal Computing and Workstations.
Yikes. You have been brainwashed. They push proprietary conventions. Calling their tech “standards” is the kind of boot licking they love you to do.
Imagine using snail mail in the digital age to send important documents that need to be signed by tomorrow. Do you realize just how much time and money would take to send a letter from, say, Poland to France?
Again, you need to drop this bizarre idea that a boycott is convenient. Protests that fail to disrupt fail to be effective. If I get a complaint about an analog letter, I could not be happier. That’s the perfect opportunity to describe the problem to whoever complains.
Not a chance, especially not for critical things.
Why did you wait until the last minute? That’s your fuckup.
Using something like Proton would definitely help make things more secure AND less money for the U.S,
Not in the slightest. MS still sees the full payload of PM msgs. Unless you use a shared key with the MS recipient, in which case MS gets the metadata. With most transactions you’ll have a hard time getting the other side to deal with a password. Try getting a bank to note down a password for such emails and see if they go along with it.
Don’t inconvenience your colleagues by forcing them to use a different client than what they are used to already.
You do you. Don’t tell people what to do.
In a workplace specifically, you likely have a mandate to use the tools of the org. That’s not really an interesting scenario because politics in the workplace is not generally tolerated by bosses.
Don’t let “perfect” get in the way of “Good”
You don’t have “good”. If you are feeding MS, that’s not good. It’s not boycotting. You have perfect getting in the way of “bad”, and rightfully so.
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“Don’t tell people what to do”
- is also actively telling people what to do.
Hypocricy at its finest!
I don’t think you are upholding your own standards. If you were, you would have just isolated yourself completely from everywhere.
But I don’t have time to argue with someone who has the same thinking as a stereotypical Vegan lol.
Go ahead am live in your fantasy land where you think boycotting means that everyone you ever send an email to is failing to boycott.
A friend said it best “If you and your friend have been dumping trash on the road and you say ‘I’m gonna quit that’ but he say he will continue. Isn’t it better that at least one of you stopped?”
Your whole idea of boycotts are twisted completely.
Also, FYI, educate yourself first. Proton is not an MS product, you donut.
Again, as a person mentioned here:
“You forgot to put ‘can you pretty please stop boycotting?’ at the end of your talk”
To the other commenters reading this:
Do what you can reasonably do. Going for this perfectionist bullshit is only going to make you want to quit boycotting U.S products and the cycle will start anew.
“Don’t tell people what to do”
is also actively telling people what to do. Hypocricy at its finest!
I’m telling you HOW to boycott as clearly you don’t grasp it. To claim to boycott a company while feeding them is a lie (to the extent that it’s not ignorance- which is what I am addressing considering when the conversation started you thought you could boycott MS while feeding them).
You are on your own to work out whether or not to boycott. That comes down to where MS stands w.r.t your values. You do you.
I don’t think you are upholding your own standards. If you were, you would have just isolated yourself completely from everywhere.
That would fail to support the good businesses who compete with the baddies. You’ve misunderstood my position if you think removing support from competitors of my adversaries upholds my standards. Relatively ethical competitors of the baddies are my friendlies.
Also, FYI, educate yourself first. Proton is not an MS product, you donut.
You need to take your own advice here. Obviously you don’t know how Protonmail works. You only get out of the box crypto if the other person also uses Protonmail, you fool. When you send email to an MS user (yes, from Protonmail) without obtaining their pubkey and or shared key, MS sees the payload. In fact, MS sees just as much as if you sent the msg from gmail. You really have no clue how encryption (symmetric and asymmetric) works. It is not some kind of magic where everyone you contact from PM has encryption.
I am taking my own advice, lol.
Just because you are stuck in your “purist” ways, doesn’t mean that everyone else is going to follow in your footsteps.
I don’t email anyone who uses Gmail or MS Outlook, but if I had to send a reply to and from my work email, to a company which likely uses Gmail, tf am I gonna do?
Shiver me timbers, I’ll send a single email through a corpo-slop server. Oh no… Anyway.
You genuinely have some of THE WORST takes I have seen on here so far. “Starbucks isn’t as evil” “Lidl sucks because they support Israel”
Again, I’m all for boycotting shitty corporations, but if you believe that sending a single email to a company WHO YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT SERVICES THEY USE is stupid.
If you have a phone, best get rid of that, because your local phone provider and U.S Satellites know where you are! They hear all your conversations and see all the SMS messages! God forbid you use your phone to sign up for anything, they can see the code you get from the service. God forbid you use a bank card, because those are owned by either Visa or MasterCard, American corporations. Best get rid of those as well, mate.
In fact, get rid of everything and go live in the woods. Perhaps you’ll learn something about life or something.
I will no longer perpetuate this conversation further as it is entirely useless. I don’t want anyone telling me that I “live in a lie”
We all do, you just don’t understand or realize it.
The archive.org link to hundreds of GMA members is dead. Bizarre, considering archive.org should not be losing stuff. Looks like redirection shenanigans. Anyway, attaching an image here:
If you can’t do graphics here is the 1st half of the list:
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3M Company St. Paul, MN Associate-Allied
A.T. Kearney, Inc. Chicago, IL Associate-Partner
AB SCIEX Framingham, MA Associate-Allied
Abbott Nutrition Columbus, OH General
Accenture Chicago, IL Associate-Partner
ACH Food Companies, Inc. Cordova, TN General
Acosta Sales & Marketing Company Jacksonville, FL General
Advantage Sales and Marketing Irvine, CA General
Aimia Minneapolis, MN Associate-Partner
American Spoon Foods, Inc. Petoskey, MI General
AmeriQual Foods Evansville, IN General
Andros UK Limited Bishops Stortford, United Kingdom General
Aon Risk Solutions Kansas City, MO Associate-Partner
Ardagh Group Carnegie, PA Associate-Supplier
Aurora Organic Dairy Boulder, CO General
Azuma Foods International Inc., USA Hayward, CA General
B&G Foods, Inc. Parsippany, NJ General
Bain & Company Boston, MA Associate-Partner
Ball Corporation Broomfield, CO Associate-Supplier
Barilla America, Inc. Bannockburn, IL General
Basic American Foods, Inc. Walnut Creek, CA General
Bayer CropScience Research Triangle Park, NC Associate-Allied
BeaconUnited Montvale, NJ General
Bell-Carter Foods, Inc. Lafayette, CA General
Bellisio Foods Minneapolis, MN General
Bemis Company, Inc. Neenah, WI Associate-Partner
Beverage House, Inc. Cartersville, GA General
Big Island Candies, Inc. Hilo, HI General
Bimbo Bakeries USA Horsham, PA General
bioMerieux, Inc. Hazelwood, MO Associate-Allied
Blue Diamond Growers Sacramento, CA General
Booz & Company Chicago, IL Associate-Partner
The Boston Consulting Group Chicago, IL Associate-Partner
Bruce Foods Corporation St. Martinville, LA General
Bumble Bee Foods, LLC San Diego, CA General
Bunge North America, Inc. St. Louis, MO General
Burdette Beckmann, Inc. Hollywood, FL General
Burris Logistics Rocky Hill, CT Associate-Allied
Bush Brothers & Company Knoxville, TN General
C.H. Guenther & Son, Inc. San Antonio, TX General
C.B. Powell Ltd. Mississauga, Ontario L4W 4Y6, Canada General
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Eden Prairie, MN Associate-Partner
California Natural Products Lathrop, CA General
Campbell Soup Company Camden, NJ General
Can Corporation of America Blandon, PA Associate-Partner
Capgemini Consulting Atlanta, GA Associate-Partner
Cargill, Inc. Wayzata, MN General
Carlton Fields, P.A. Tampa, FL Associate-Allied
Catalina St. Petersburg, FL Associate-Partner
CEO Search Partners LLC Chicago, IL Associate-Allied
CHEP Orlando, FL Associate-Partner
Chiquita/Fresh Express, Inc. Charlotte, NC General
Clabber Girl Corporation Terre Haute, IN General
Clement Pappas & Company, Inc. Carneys Point, NJ General
Clemmy’s LLC Rancho Mirage, CA General
The Clorox Company Oakland, CA General
The Coca-Cola Company Atlanta, GA General
Colgate-Palmolive Company Piscataway, NJ General
ConAgra Foods Omaha, NE General
Consorcio C�tricos Dominicanos, S.A. Villa Altagracia 1382, Dominican
Republic General
Continental Mills, Inc. Seattle, WA General
Covance Laboratories Madison, WI Associate-Allied
Creative Foodworks, Inc. San Antonio, TX General
CROSSMARK Plano, TX General
Crown Holdings, Inc. Philadelphia, PA Associate-Supplier
Cyba Stevens Management Group Calgary, AB, Canada General
D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc. Louisville, KY General
Daymon Worldwide, Inc. Stamford, CT Associate-Partner
Dean Foods Company Dallas, TX General
Decernis LLC Washington, DC Associate-Allied
Del Monte Foods San Francisco, CA General
DelGrosso Foods, Inc. Tipton, PA General
Deloitte Consulting LLP New York, NY Associate-Partner
Diamond Foods, Inc. San Francisco, CA General
Dole Packaged Foods Company Westlake Village, CA General
Dow AgroSciences Indianapolis, IN Associate-Supplier
DSC Logistics, Inc. Des Plaines, IL Associate-Allied
DSM Nutritional Products, LLC Parsippany, NJ Associate-Partner
dunnhumby USA Cincinnati, OH Associate-Partner
DuPont Fort Wayne, IN Supplier
Durrset Amigos, Ltd. San Antonio, TX General
E. & J. Gallo Winery Hayward, CA Affiliate
Ecolab USA, Inc. St. Paul, MN Associate-Partner
El Encanto Inc. Albuquerque, NM General
Elanco Greenfield, IN Associate-Partner
Energizer Holdings, Inc. St. Louis, MO General
ES3, LLC Keene, NH Associate-Allied
Eurofins Scientific, Inc. Des Moines, IA Associate-Allied
Exponent, Inc. Washington, DC Associate-Allied
EY Chicago, IL Associate-Partner
Faribault Foods, Inc. Minneapolis, MN General
Ferrero USA, Inc. Somerset, NJ General
Florida Products San Jose, Costa Rica General
Flowers Foods, Inc. Thomasville, GA General
Foster Clark Products Ltd. San Gwann SGN 3000, Malta General
Freight Handlers, Inc. Fuquay-Varina, NC Associate-Partner
Furmano Foods Northumberland, PA General
GE Charlottesville, VA Associate-Partner
GENCO Pittsburgh, PA Associate-Allied
General Mills, Inc. Golden Valley, MN General
Genpact International Danbury, CT Associate-Partner
Georgia-Pacific LLC Atlanta, GA General
Giorgio Foods, Inc. Temple, PA General
Godiva Chocolatier, Inc. New York, NY General
Golden Specialty Foods, Inc. Norwalk, CA General
Gossner Foods, Inc. Logan, UT General
Goya de Puerto Rico, Inc. Bayamon, PR General
Goya Foods Great Lakes Angola, NY General
Grandma Brown’s Beans, Inc. Mexico, NY General
Grant Thornton LLP Chicago, IL Associate-Partner
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Waterbury, VT General
Hanover Foods Corporation Hanover, PA General
Harlow-HRK Sales & Marketing, Inc. Springdale, OH General
H.J. Heinz Company Pittsburgh, PA General
The Hershey Company Hershey, PA General
Hewlett-Packard Company Plano, TX Associate-Allied
The Hillshire Brands Company Chicago, IL General
Hirzel Canning Company Toledo, OH General
Hoopeston Foods, Inc. Burnsville, MN General
Hormel Foods Corporation Austin, MN General
House-Autry Mills, Inc. Four Oaks, NC General
HRCP, a wholly owned subsidiary of McKinsey & Co. Southlake, TX
Associate-Partner
Hunt Executive Search, Inc. New York, NY Associate-Partner
Hussmann Corporation Piscataway, NJ Associate-Allied
icix, North America South San Francisco, CA Associate-Allied
Idahoan Foods, LLC Idaho Falls, ID General
Infor Alpharetta, GA Associate-Allied
Inmar Winston-Salem, NC Associate-Partner
The Integer Group LLC Lakewood, CO Associate-Allied
Intermec Technologies Corporation Everett, WA Associate-Allied
Inventure Foods, Inc. Phoenix, AZ General
IRI Chicago, IL Associate-Partner
The J. M. Smucker Company Orrville, OH General
Jasper Products, LLC Joplin, MO General
JBT FoodTech Madera, CA Associate-Supplier
JDA Software, Inc. Scottsdale, AZ Associate-Partner
JOH Billerica, MA General
Johnson Foods, Inc. Sunnyside, WA General
Jones-Hamilton Company Walbridge, OH Associate-Supplier
Jyoti Natural Foods Sharon Hill, PA General
Kagome, Inc. Los Banos, CA General
Kane Is Able, Inc. Scranton, PA Associate-Allied
Kellogg Company Battle Creek, MI General
Kerry Ingredients & Flavours Beloit, WI General
Kikkoman Foods, Inc. Walworth, WI General
Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Peach Glen, PA General
KPMG LLP Montvale, NJ Associate-Partner
Kraft Foods Group Northfield, IL General
Lakeside Foods, Inc. Manitowoc, WI General
Land O’Lakes, Inc. Arden Hills, MN General
Lang Pharma Nutrition, Inc. Newport, RI General
LDS Church – Welfare Services Salt Lake City, UT General
LLamasoft, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI Associate-Allied
Lowenstein Sandler PC Roseland, NJ Associate-Allied
Marakon, a CRA Company Chicago, IL Associate-Allied
Mariani Packing Company, Inc. Vacaville, CA General
Mars, Incorporated McLean, VA General
Martek Biosciences Corporation Columbia, MD Associate-Allied
McCain Foods USA, Inc. Lisle, IL General
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McDonald’s Corporation Oak Brook, IL Affiliate
McIlhenny Company Avery Island, LA General
McKinsey & Company, Inc. New York, NY Associate-Partner
Mead Johnson Nutrition Company Evansville, IN General
MeadWestvaco Corporation Richmond, VA Associate-Partner
M�rieux NutriSciences Chicago, IL Associate-Allied
Merisant Company Chicago, IL General
Michael Foods, Inc. Minnetonka, MN General
MOM Brands Lakeville, MN General
Mondelez International, Inc. Deerfield, IL General
Monsanto Company St. Louis, MO Supplier
Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. Watsonville, CA General
Moody Dunbar, Inc. Johnson City, TN General
Morgan Foods, Inc. Austin, IN General
Morton Salt Chicago, IL General
Mosaic Sales Solutions Irving, TX General
Musco Family Olive Co. Tracy, CA General
The Mushroom Company Cambridge, MD General
Nampak Ltd. Cape Town, South Africa General
The National Food Laboratory Livermore, CA Associate-Allied
National Fruit Product Company, Inc. Winchester, VA General
Nestl� USA, Inc. Glendale, CA General
Niagara Bottling, LLC Ontario, CA General
Nielsen Schaumburg, IL Associate-Partner
Nu-Tek Food Science Minnetonka, MN General
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. Lakeville-Middleboro, MA General
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. Thomasville, NC Associate-Allied
Oracle USA, Inc. Redwood City, CA Associate-Partner
Oregon Fruit Products Company Salem, OR General
Owens-Illinois, Inc. Perrysburg, OH General
Oy Transmeri Ab 02630 EESPOO, Finland GeneralThe remaining:
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Paradise Tomato Kitchens, Inc. Louisville, KY General
PBM Products, LLC dba Perrigo Nutritionals Gordonsville, VA General
PECO Pallet, Inc. Irvington, NY Associate-Partner
PepsiCo, Inc. Purchase, NY General
Peravia Industrial S.A. Bani, Prov. Peravia, Dominican Republic General
The Perfect Puree of Napa Valley, LLC Napa, CA General
Pfizer Nutrition Madison, NJ General
Pharmavite LLC Northridge, CA General
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC Parsippany, NJ General
Post Foods, LLC Brentwood, MO General
POWER Engineers, Inc. Hailey, ID Associate-Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP New York, NY Associate-Partner
The Procter & Gamble Company Cincinnati, OH General
Procurian King of Prussia, PA Associate-Partner
QAD Inc. Santa Barbara, CA Associate-Partner
Ralston Foods, Inc. St. Louis, MO General
Reckitt Benckiser Inc. Parsippany, NJ General
Rehrig Pacific Company Dallas, TX Associate-Partner
Reily Foods Company New Orleans, LA General
Resource Columbus, OH Associate-Allied
Retail Solutions, Inc. Mountain View, CA Associate-Partner
Rich Products Corporation Buffalo, NY General
River Run Foods Northumberland, PA General
Robert Rothschild Farm, LLC Urbana, OH General
Rockwell Automation, Inc. Austin, TX Associate-Allied
Roka Bioscience, Inc. Warren, NJ Associate-Allied
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Troy, MI Associate-Partner
Ruiz Foods, Inc. Dinuba, CA General
RW3 Incorporated Alamo, CA Associate-Partner
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Racine, WI General
Safeway Inc. Pleasanton, CA Retailer-Manufacturer
SAI Global Toronto, ON, Canada Associate-Allied
salesforce.com San Francisco, CA Associate-Partner
SAP Americas Newtown Square, PA Associate-Partner
Saticoy Foods Corporation Ventura, CA General
Schawk, Inc. Des Plaines, IL Associate-Partner
Seafood Products Association Seattle, WA Associate-Allied
Sealed Air Corporation Elmwood Park, NJ Associate-Partner
SellEthics Marketing Group, Inc. Matthews, NC General
Shearer’s Foods, Inc. Massillon, OH General
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Kansas City, MO Associate-Allied
Siemens AG Milford, OH Associate-Partner
Signature Brands, LLC Ocala, FL General
Silgan Containers Corporation Woodland Hills, CA Associate-Supplier
Smithfield Foods, Inc. Smithfield, VA General
Snyder’s-Lance, Inc. Charlotte, NC General
Sonoco Products Company Hartsville, SC Associate-Partner
Southern Classic Food Group Brundidge, AL General
Starbucks Coffee Company Seattle, WA Retailer-Manufacturer
Stericycle ExpertRECALL Indianapolis, IN Associate-Partner
Strategic Solutions, Inc. Walnut Creek, CA Associate-Partner
The Sun Products Corporation Wilton, CT General
Sun-Maid Growers of California Kingsburg, CA General
Suncore Products, LLC Denver, CO General
Sunny Delight Beverages Company Cincinnati, OH General
Syngenta Corporation Greensboro, NC Associate-Partner
Target Corporation Minneapolis, MN Retailer-Manufacturer
Tasty Baking Company Philadelphia, PA General
Tata Consultancy Services New York, NY Associate-Partner
TelerX Marketing, Inc. Horsham, PA Associate-Partner
Teradata Corporation Miamisburg, OH Associate-Partner
Terra Technology Norwalk, CT Associate-Partner
Tetra Pak, Inc. Vernon Hills, IL Associate-Supplier
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville, TX General
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Waltham, MA Associate-Allied
Thomas, Large & Singer Inc. Markham, ON, Canada General
Tip Top Canning Company Tipp City, OH General
Tree Top, Inc. Selah, WA General
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. Oakbrook, IL General
Two Chefs on a Roll, Inc. Carson, CA General
U.S. Bank - Food Industries Division Denver, CO Associate-Partner
The United States Pharmacopeial Convention Rockville, MD
Associate-Allied
Unilever Englewood Cliffs, NJ General
Unilever (Alberto Culver) Melrose Park, IL General
University of Phoenix Tempe, AZ Associate-Partner
Vanee Foods Company Berkeley, IL General
VWR International LLC Radnor, PA Associate-Allied
Waste Management, Inc. Houston, TX Associate-Partner
Waters Corporation Millford, MA Associate-Allied
Welch Foods, Inc. Concord, MA General
WhiteWave Foods Company Denver, CO General
Wipro Technologies Bangalore, India Associate-Partner
Wm Bolthouse Farms Bakersfield, CA General
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Chicago, IL GeneralMy list is a few years old but I don’t imagine GMA membership changes much.