N.Ireland and America.

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1. Sounds like a fine idea, for environmental reasons too. All our produce is labelled so it should be relatively easy? Spar seems more likely to have local stuff than the big boys. Dunnes a good bet too.

2. Sounds like a good idea.

3. >America seems to be imploding with far right bullshit

   Well, Europe seems to be imploding with far left bullshit for years now.

   * Oh wow 16 downvotes in 9 minutes leftists having a meltdown lol.

4. My tabaccoo says Virginia on it but I’m almost certain it’s provenance is Turkish

   If it was possible to boycott just hearing about America or their presence on the Internet that be great, it dominates the front page, mentioned on every sub reddit no matter how obscure and even if your avoiding obvious content pretty much every comment section you look at anywhere is completely fucked with it, think it’s funny/interesting how my reddit leans left but the YouTube comments I mostly see are hard right. 

5. Generally for it, but I’m still buying Milwaukee tools. The fuck am I buying a whole other brand’s battery ecosystem

6. i can tell from your language, grammer and lack of awareness of anything thats actually happening in the world that youre about 16 years old

   >Ok, so UK and Germany flagging up heading to the states as a bad idea (visa and immigration etc).

   what on earth are you even talking about? ‘Ok, so <thing that isnt true>’ ? you make it sound like keir or the wider population of the UK and germany have released a PSA warning against travel to america, the way they might about going to sudan or syria some where. No, its just a travel text about careful not to break visa laws. Keir, or the leader of Germany , probably had nothing to do with that. and who cares about what reuters says in anything

   >America seems to be imploding with far right bullshit 

   Yeah, the pendulum swings back to centre/right after years of left-wing bullshit which you were happy to lap up

   >All in the direction of bad stuff ahead. Like the other US meddling in Ukraine and Palestine. A river of shit from the president of clowns.

   you sound like a 12 year old. big places like the EU/US and other blocs often ‘meddle’ in crisis zones.

   >So I like the idea the Canadians have, not buying American products, but whats the thoughts on this from an NI perspective?

   so pretty much just take trump’s terrible idea but do the same as him? and how is this a ‘canadian’ idea?

   >In Canada they label the stuff that’s from Canada. Don’t think the markings are as clear here but I’d certainly buy NI local companies 100% over anything, or UK or Ireland for example.

   grow up, everyone allready knows to buy local. if youre so dumb you cant tell that johnny walker is american then you need to grow a brain.

7. Honestly can’t think of any American products that are sold in ni and uk, all the brands and brand names are franchises like coke made outside Lisburn. All we would be doing is hitting local jobs. I’m definitely not in the market for a pickup truck or chlorine chicken but honestly what is American?

8. I’ve already started reducing usage of American products, been boycotting Israeli products for years but the US has dominated our markets in so many areas (especially tech) that it’s impossible to avoid it completely.

   I’m in the EU (from NI) and our company (as well as those from friends) are already looking at EU vendors. I work in cybersecurity so it’s become a common theme about the security risk of using US vendors but many of us are locked in with very little viable alternative. For example, operating systems are Windows or Apple, an alternative would be Linux but it’s not very user friendly. Same with work phones, they’re either Android or Apple, migrating to EU alternatives would be a massive undertaking.

   I’m finding swapping out groceries, browsers, clothing etc a lot easier than the big stuff used for work. I actually feel better knowing I’m supporting EU businesses rather than those overseas, this has personally and professionally been a wake up call of how hard the US has made us dependent on their products with the EU failing to ensure fair competition.

9. I don’t mind buying local whenever possible, but a lot of small daily things people eat, drink or use, are from the US giants.

   Cola Co, Pepsi Co, Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Nestle. Just to name a few.

   They have a lot of products under their belt and some of the favourites around here. They have a big market share.

   I did a quick look around and found loads of products from them. Crisps, drinks, sauces, ice creams. Toothpastes, toothbrushes, and other hygiene products.

   Most of our technology is US-based, same with cloud services and entertainment/streaming platforms. Social media, same thing.

   This was definitely a wake up call. We cannot be so reliant on the US. But for a number of things we might not have other options readily available, or you might not be willing to start consuming products from different brands that you have preferred all your life.

10. This Easter put 🇺🇸-Nestle on your no-go, their slavery and abuse on cocoa, coffee and banana farms is despicable. Their chocolate is gross anyway…

    KitKat

    Aero

    Yorkie

    Milkybar

    After Eight

    Smarties

    Rolo

    Munchies

    Toffee Crisp

    Caramac

    Quality Street

    Black Magic

11. Asda has some of their food marked “produce of Northern Ireland”

12. Cadbury’s is owned by Americans good luck getting people to stop munching their Easter eggs

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