Alan DiGangi 
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Re: “The Chick-fil-A Conundrum: How to Reconcile Tasty Chicken with Distasteful Politics”

Very simple- I don't eat there, both because of they encourage hate, but also because they support farming methods that are unnecessarily abusive and ecologically unsustainable. When friends want to eat there and I can't talk them out of it, I stop at Chipotle first for a to-go order that i bring with me to their Cfa table.

It is not impossible, or all that limiting, to be ethical in how you spend your money. Of course, you can't know everything that every company supports- but that's no reason to not act on what you *do* know. Throwing up your hands because you don't know everything (which isn't even humanly possible) is giving up, giving in- its not bothering to try because its "too hard". If something is very important to you, then it shouldn't be "too hard" to at least *try*.

For those that are so well researched that they have the opposite issue- that it seems like every company supports something you disagree with, if you think about it, certain things are more important than others (I am not saying which are, that is for you to decide). Rarely are two companies so identical that there is no point in choosing... Many times the choice is between a "somewhat disagreeable" company and a "extremely disagree" company.

Finally, how *necessary* are some of these things to your life? Does not eating at Cfa mean that you are going to starve? Is the government going to garnish your wages for not eating there? I doubt it. No one is forcing you to eat there. You can eat elsewhere. you can pack a lunch from home. If you disagree with Cfa strongly enough, the only thing that is holding you back from choosing not to support them is your own weakness.

If you don't support the oil industry, but you want to work (and be able to afford food and shelter) and your job is too far away to bike to and not near public transit, you don't have much choice (maybe you can drive less locally, but you're still going to have to drive some). You may not support things our taxes go for- but if you don't pay it, you'll have your wages garnished or a lien put on your house (thus, you're forced to pay) and you'll have your credit ruined. Again, you don't have much choice here- you can get involved politically to try to change what our government spends its money on, but meanwhile, you're going to have to pay those taxes.

So there are places you don't have much if any choice (eg taxes) but why give in to a mentality that if you have no choice on one thing, you have no choice with anything at all? Take the opportunity to make smart and ethical choices whenever you do have the power to choose!

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Posted by Alan DiGangi on 10/13/2011 at 8:00 PM

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