Boycott Canada's Timeshare Resorts!

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Did that really happen or is it just another urban myth. I find it difficult to believe that anybody would boycott 'French fries' just because of the name. If it actually happened maybe more foodstuffs in America should have 'French' included in the name. It might help reduce the obesity levels.

I think we boycotted "French Fries" for about a week, and then decided it would be easier to just change the name to 'Freedom Fries'. No need to give up all that fat/cholesterol...

The term never really stuck, and we still call them 'French Fries'.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

I wonder how many of you boycotted French wine or cheese after 9/11, and I also wonder how many of you and your relatives and friends boycotted "French fries" which absolutely have nothing to do with France!

Carol,

I understand your frustration, and horror with the situation. I agree with you that the treatment of Seals, as well as many other animals seems inhumane, and brutal.

I would certainly be willing to sign a petition, or write a scathing letter to the proper authorities.

Perhaps there is a better way to make a strong statement against the Seal Hunt, just a thought.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

BTW, Canada has never agreed with the U.S. stance concerning Iraq ...

No, Canada trusted their own instinct and didn't follow the USA like lemmings into the mess that has been created. France, Russia etc are animals of a different colour as they had political and financial ties with the Iraqi regime. To the best of my understanding that was not the case with Canada.

Not supporting the USA doesn't automatically make a country anti-American. The USA doesn't yet rule the entire world. Sovereign states still have the right to self determination.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

I don't see why we should limit our passion to baby seals. All God's creatures, great and small, desere the same consideration and concern.

I suggest that all of us who are like minded should get together and organize an animal rights BBQ sometime. A luau on Maui would be fine with me.

[tomkat Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close tomkat]

Canadian tourist boycott

Whilst I agree that the way the seal pups are killed is barbaric I have no plans to hold the actions of a few against an entire population. Such action is utter pointless and unfair on those who rely on the tourist industry, in my opinion.

I disagree.

Canada is a democratic country and this barbaric activity is sanctioned by the Canadian government, so a boycott of the tourist industry is an ideal and legitimate way of exerting pressure so long as the decision makers are made aware that this is happening.

Write to your local Canadian embassy and to the Canadian newspapers to tell them of the boycott. This will have a much greater effect than a refusal to purchase seal derived products. You can only hope to achieve positive results by hitting where it really hurts.

Canada is not the only country to permit cruel activities. Hunting takes place in most countries. Some people kill for commercial reasons, some for pleasure, but any any non-humane activity must be condemned. Here in the U.K. we have only just achieved a ban on hunting with dogs and there is still a mindless minority that wish to see this legislation overturned. However the seal slaughter is particulary obnoxious in terms of the massive scale of the operation, the methods used, and the defenceless nature of the victims.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

[QUOTE=tomkat]. Here in the U.K. we have only just achieved a ban on hunting with dogs and there is still a mindless minority that wish to see this legislation overturned./QUOTE]

It was actually a very small minority who voted for the ban, as most people have far more pressing things to worry about, just as it was the smallest minority of the available vote in history that got the current UK government elected.
I dare say that if I looked I could find things in every country on earth to object to, but that won't stop me travelling. Travel is said to broaden the mind. There are enough narrow minded people around without adding to the number. (tomkat - I am not implying that you fit that category, we simply have different views)

[Carol C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Carol C]

I forgot to mention before that I actually started a *threat to boycott* a timeshare resort in Mexico that had penned up dolphins in 8 ft deep water for tourists' trivial pursuits of petting pleasure. That resort in the Baja was trying to make extra money. Well, as a US citizen I'm not allowed to be involved in Mexican politics due to their constitution, so when I move there some day I'm gonna have to work behind the scenes, covertly. Anyway, in the Baja there is a growing environmental movement, and I know some of those people, so I suggested to them that they tell the resort that a boycott of their resort was about to ensue at the hands of timesharers. Let's just say that plan helped the cause, because a few short months later the dolphins were set free (the two that survived...one died cooped up in the shallow hot water in scalding summer heat of La Paz.)

Moral of story: boycotts of timeshare resorts can and do work.

As for Steve, I won't be joining you in your barbecue. Hope you don't get rained out when global warming ruins your paradise of Maui with continual flooding.