true enough, you CAN buy chocolate that is produced by more fair-minded cooperative style farms and factories...

Like Kendall, I also stopped patronizing Exxon (it REALLY Pisses me off that they still sponsor Masterpiece Theatre; I used to work at WGBH and many who wokr there refuse to call it "Exxon-Mobil Masterpiece Theatre") years ago.

I will not buy Nike products and urge others not to.

years ago I put a lot of energy into campaigning for a Humane Farming Initiative in Massachusetts. It did not pass, mainly because of a big-money counter campaign funded by the Farm Bureau (Save the Family Farm! Vote No on #4!--what rot. These people are the ones who put farmers out of business).

In support of this I try very hard not to purchase or eat anything that is nor organically grown or humanely-raised.

I am one of the few pagans I know (surprisingly enough) who puts energy into the recycling thing on a consistent basis. I have attended a small pagan gathering in Florida three times now and they do not separate ANY of their trash; not even glass bottles...

I don't drink Coke either (hard to avoid patronizing that company as they own so much of the world).

Peg