French consumers seeking to boycott US struggle to identify American products
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Some French consumers are looking for ways to do without American products to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine. But close trading ties and the nature of multinational companies is…

Some French consumers are looking for ways to do without American products to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine. But close trading ties and the nature of multinational companies is making it tough to identify which products to boycott.

  • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    There is an app for boycotting companies complicit in Israels crimes called “No Thanks”.

    You just have to scan the barcode and it will check it against its database.
    It is a pretty straightforward design that should be easy to implement/expand for specifically US products.

    As a start many of the companies that are boycott targets for their complicity in Israeli crimes are also US-American or heavily involved with the US.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-google-reinstates-app-boycott-companies

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
    321·
    3 days ago

    While I wholeheartedly support their idea, one must also note the irony of coordinating action via Facebook.

  • pastermilEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    They can start by not using Facebook (including Instagram and Whatsapp).

      • pastermilEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        I’m probably on a different part of the world than you are, and I can relate.

        • zer0@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          23 hours ago

          I mean… technically it’s easy but it’s a choice of cutting a lot of contacts or having to convince a lot of people… which is extremely hard as they made their choice once and a change of it would make their life sooooo much harder (even though it’s easy AF…) I just wish we’d never have started to use centralized services.

      • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        The plural of “anecdote” is not “data”, I know, but I tried three products (Swedish nicotine pouches, British vitamin supplements, French deodorant) and it got all three perfectly.

        • Djinn_Indigo@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I mean, it kind of is though? It’s a handy sentiment, but if you think about it, good data is just a well-curated collection of anecdotes. 🤷

          Sorry, bit of a tangent. 😅

  • idegenszavakEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    The first 3 characters of barcodes means the country of origin.It won’t tell the nationality of the owner of the factory, but you can see where it was packaged, if there are no other clues it can help. Here is the full list. Basically if the first number is 0, 1 or 2, there is a big chance it’s from the us.

    • CheradenineEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      According to your link

      GS1 prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given product.