Don’t want to be a negative nelly, but Sweden is probably same as Finland. You don’t see much US products at consumer lever and if you do, they are definately not essentials. Usually they are on the exotics section i.e. candy and soda.
What about products from companies that are owned by US companies, though? e.g. Kraft, Mondelez. They own a lot of regional brands, such as Germany’s Milka.
You can sure try, but usually those are huge international conglomerates that are paying taxes all over the world (or avoiding them). If you boycott the daughter company of a daughter company, it wouldn’t even tickle the head office.
That would also require research and keeping lists. That’s a bit above your average person willing to boycott. You’ll stuck with few hard core activists.
That’s why it is so hard boycott the giants that owned companies that remained in Russia after the invasion. People were nice and made active lists on the Internet and even Ukraine had one, but they were really sketchy about the nature of the affiliation.
Most of those just work with licences and the products are not made in US. You are not hurting US business by boycotting them, only local entrepreneurs. In US they’ll still get their licence fees.
In Finland McDonalds burger ingredients come from Europe. Beef patties come from East-Europe. Hesburger is the same and their claim on local ingredients is bullshit. Only the bun and possibly fries might be locally produced.
In McDonalds the vegetarian pattie come from US. Those are unhealthy ultraprocessed food and due to logistical distances they are an ecological nightmare. You shouldn’t be eating those anyway.
Same with Coke and Pepsi. They are produced by local companies with licence. If you gave somebody here a US made soda they would be wierded out. Due to agricultural reasons US uses corn syrup to sweeten everything and European taste finds that really funky.
Don’t want to be a negative nelly, but Sweden is probably same as Finland. You don’t see much US products at consumer lever and if you do, they are definately not essentials. Usually they are on the exotics section i.e. candy and soda.
What about products from companies that are owned by US companies, though? e.g. Kraft, Mondelez. They own a lot of regional brands, such as Germany’s Milka.
You can sure try, but usually those are huge international conglomerates that are paying taxes all over the world (or avoiding them). If you boycott the daughter company of a daughter company, it wouldn’t even tickle the head office.
That would also require research and keeping lists. That’s a bit above your average person willing to boycott. You’ll stuck with few hard core activists.
That’s why it is so hard boycott the giants that owned companies that remained in Russia after the invasion. People were nice and made active lists on the Internet and even Ukraine had one, but they were really sketchy about the nature of the affiliation.
But there are lots of American companies like McDonald’s (Hesburger ftw)
Most of those just work with licences and the products are not made in US. You are not hurting US business by boycotting them, only local entrepreneurs. In US they’ll still get their licence fees.
In Finland McDonalds burger ingredients come from Europe. Beef patties come from East-Europe. Hesburger is the same and their claim on local ingredients is bullshit. Only the bun and possibly fries might be locally produced.
In McDonalds the vegetarian pattie come from US. Those are unhealthy ultraprocessed food and due to logistical distances they are an ecological nightmare. You shouldn’t be eating those anyway.
Same with Coke and Pepsi. They are produced by local companies with licence. If you gave somebody here a US made soda they would be wierded out. Due to agricultural reasons US uses corn syrup to sweeten everything and European taste finds that really funky.
McD is on a franchising model. Boycotting them in Finland hurts the Finnish entrepreneur more than the Mothership in the US.
Coke and others are also manufactured in Finland, with a license.
There is this tiny “America” shelf in the grocery store I’m boycotting tho 😀