Boycott of Oreos Is Necessary

Last year, Nabisco, a company owned by Mondelēz International, a major American food and beverage company, began to move production facilities for its famous "Oreo" cookies to Mexico from the United States; specifically, from Chicago, Illinois. About 600 American jobs have been lost because of this move. Big corporations make EVERYTHING about money, so we need to make it about money, THEIR money! Quit taking this crap! This is NOT complicated folks! If you keep supporting these moneygrubbers, they will keep doing it. Send a major message! There needs to be NO VIOLENCE against these companies and their owners, just hit them where it really hurts, not their bottoms, rather their bottom line! Don't let them get away with talk of patriotism, when they owe their allegiance to the flag of dollar bills. Send letters, emails or talk personally to your local supermarkets and grocery stores. Ask them to STOP carrying Oreos. I'm not telling you this will be easy, but we can't just sit and let this crap continue! When they announced the building of a cookie plant in Mexico, it was stated that "Mexico is a strategic market." Taken at face value, does that mean the U.S. is no longer a "strategic market?" Now let me translate the real meaning of the statement for you: "Mexico has low wages" (likely tax advantages too). Remember, when you buy Oreos, you're supporting the loss of jobs for American workers. Don't think it can't happen to you or to people in your family or neighborhood.

WORD HISTORY:
Boycott-This relatively recent word is derived from the family name of English-born Charles Cunningham Boycott, a retired British army officer. Boycott became a land agent for an estate in County Mayo, Ireland, where his strict rental policies, especially evictions, brought an organized effort by the local populace in 1880 to isolate him by refusing services of any kind to him, including the harvesting of the estate crops. The authorities (Ireland was then under British rule) sent in troops and police to control things and to harvest the crops, but the whole thing had drawn lots of press reporting, which helped to spread the term "boycott," which had been used by locals for the organized protest; thus the meaning of the verb usage of, "to refrain from having dealings with a person, group, or business to express a protest over an issue or issues." Of course, the noun form simply refers to the overall process of the verb.