You knew this was coming: Buy Danish campaign!

[Roxanne Appleby]

I think I will do so. If you google "buy danish" a number of sites comes up with lists like this one.

Food:
Arla Foods is Europe's second-largest dairy company and the leading Danish exporter to Saudi Arabia, where it sells an estimated 328 million dollars worth of products every year
Brands:
Rosenborg
Lurpak
Dofino
Denmark's Finest
Mediterra

Danish Crown (meat)
Emborg
Beautiful Denmark (Butter Cookies)
Famous Dane (Butter Cookies)
Danish Bacon
Thor Fish
Danisco Food

Candy:
Toms (chocolate)
LAgermann
Galle & Jessen
Ingeborgs Chocolate

Beverages:
Tuborg Beer
Carlsberg Beer
Aalborg Aquavit (snaps)
Danish Distillers (Swedish Company some products produced in Denmark)

Medicine:
Novo

Audio Equipment/Home Theater
(Theatre for those across the Pond):
Audio Vector
B&O (Bang & Olufsen)
Cilo
Dali
DynAudio
Eltax
Jamo
Tangent
Vifa

Cigarettes:
Prince (Do not start smoking because of this fire!)

Clothing:
H2O
Hummel
Per Reumert
Munthe plus Simonsen
Bruuns Bazaar
IC Companies
In Wear
Matinique
Noa Noa
Sand

Shoes:
Ecco (USA Site)
Jaco
Dansko

Software:
EarMaster (for musicians)


Toys:
Brio (oops Swedish will remove this weekend)
Lego (toys)

Furniture:
Fritz Hansen

Danish Design:
B & G Porcelain
Georg Jensen
HTH- kitchen
Morsoe (Fireplaces)
Lindberg (Glasses)
PH-lamps
Pipes
Raadvad (knives etc.)
Royal Copenhagen
Royal Danish Porcelain
Skagen (Watches)
Stelton
Trip Trap
Vesta (Windmills)

Other:
Danish Yarn
Nexo Fireplaces
Nilfisk Vacuum Cleaners (USA site since I do not speak Danish)
Watco Danish Furniture Oil
Leitech (USA Site) Special "thread gage" used in quality control in the following areas of manufacturing; automotive, aerospace, medical, hydraulics, small and large engine manufacture.
Leitech (Danish Site)
Grund Foss ( Pump solution maker)
Dan Foss ( Valve manufacture )
GN ( Hearing aid, headsets and mobil headsets )
X-Yachts

 

[Pure]

just curious

if the 'free market' is the basis of morality, do the boycotters have a 'moral right' to do what they're doing? or is what they're doing 'wrong'?

am I correct in thinking that, according to your view they DO have that right, but of course the rest of us have a right to 'counterboycott', increase our spending.

but let's look more deeply: in one sense, however, surely you would applaud (I think) the expression of views without 'force' (i.e., no burning of embassies) through the boycott and other means; it's part of a rational process (I think you would say); thus in your view, it's a kind of 'debate' as it were:

one side says 'the cartoons offend so i'm not buying' and the other side says, 'you're being offended and using that as a reason for not buying offends me, so I'm increasing my buying.'

the odd thing about this 'debate'--or conflict-- is that the larger pocketbook will win.

is that, according to you, a rational, and morally desirable outcome?

in simple terms, if the Arab view (suppress the cartoons, punish the publishers) prevails because they are so rich and so important as buyers of Danish products, is that acceptable and/or applauded from a 'free market' perspective?

 

[Liar]

in simple terms, if the Arab view (suppress the cartoons, punish the publishers) prevails because they are so rich and so important as buyers of Danish products, is that acceptable and/or applauded from a 'free market' perspective?

Arabs boycotting Danish companies are just silly. Americans who boycotted French goods likewise. If they boycott Aftenposten (the magqazine that published the cartoons), fine. These companies have nothing to do with Aftenposten, so boycotting them is both illogic and counter productive.

Some decreased tax revenue for the Danish government, perhaps, but most large companies like Arla are dodging taxes w. foreign ownership and loopholes anyway.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'm boycotting Danish products until I see those companies boycotting Aftenposten.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Did someone say butter cookies? I'm sure I saw that in here. Any excuse to buy butter cookies is one I can get on board for

J,

I would say a boycott is a rational way of expressing your displeasure with a company whose policies ofend you. It's your money, and spending it how you wish is a valid example of freedom of expression. However, the more general a boycott is, the less impression it makes. So boycotting Danish good all together, is likely to make very little impact on the paper who is the target of your angst. Boycotting hte paper may have some effect, but probably not much. Boycotting the companies that ADVERTISE in that paper, may get results for your efforts. Assuming you can negatively effect thier profit margins to a degree that offsets them reaching their target consumers by using the paper.

Personally, I hope all muslim nations boycott Danish butter cookies. Cause that means I can afford more when they get overstocked

Assuming of course Muslims like Butter cookies as much as I do.

 

[Liar]

Assuming of course Muslims like Butter cookies as much as I do.

Well, arabs in general seems to fancy them sweet things. Pastries, candy, toffees, cookies, coffee with more sugar than coffee...


Personally I couldn't boycott Danish beer if my life depended on it. Unless of course I had an unlimited supply of Duvel instead.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Well, arabs in general seems to fancy them sweet things. Pastries, candy, toffees, cookies, coffee with more sugar than coffee...


Personally I couldn't boycott Danish beer if my life depended on it. Unless of course I had an unlimited supply of Duvel instead.

...unlike us Swedes, who in general hate candy, pastries, and cookies...

 

[Liar]

...unlike us Swedes, who in general hate candy, pastries, and cookies...

Um...yeah.

I'm in a brownie phase. Is that bad?

 

[Pure]

until recently, i lived a couple blocks from a Danish bakery, and now I'm spoiled--the so called Danishes around here suck. let's not forget another Danish export--blondes.

any volunteers to help settle these pastries?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Um...yeah.

I'm in a brownie phase. Is that bad?

If we're talking orange-flavoured brownie, I'm with you.

 

[Liar]

If we're talking orange-flavoured brownie, I'm with you.

Coconut, actually. But yeah. orange is good too.

 

[R. Richard]

I think I will do so. If you google "buy danish" a number of sites comes up with lists like this one.

Food:
Danish Crown (meat)

Danish Crown is sold as DAK Hams at least in the USA.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Hey, there are enough boycotts, so counter-boycotts sound fair, and I hope that they work better than most boycotts do (which is basically, from my experience, not at all).

 

[Pure]

that's not the issue i was trying to raise, it is:

does a boycott contribute to 'rational' process or 'rational' problem resolution?

(it is agreed that boycott and counterboycott, if there is such a thing, are on a similar footing, similar moral ground).

it will follow [from answering 'no' and from agreeing as above] that the pair do not contribute to a rational resolution: it's as if we are having an argument over, 'is that well on my farm's land or yours?' and I say I'm going to have all banks and agencies cancel your credit (through a complaint process), and you reply that you'll see to it that my major suppliers cut me off. one of us may 'cave',but why is that a 'rational' outcome (moreso, than, say, having a duel over the issue?)

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Orange brownies???????? I want that recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!