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[Paul]

Hi - would any of you boycott / avoid travelling to a destination due to political or humanitarian or environmental reasons?

If so - where and why?

China - currently cracking down on Tibetans? Does that deserve a boycott? Would it help?

Burma - Aung San Suu Kyi has asked tourists to stay away and therefore not show support to the junta nor give any money to it - would you follow her advice? Is seeing Burma helping the junta or the people?

Would you have avoided South Africa during apartied?

How about Afghanistan during the rule of the Tellie Tubbies?

Israel? USA? North Korea? Australia? Malaysia? Thailand?...., I suppose I could write out a list of every country in the world - as almost each country does things that many of us wouldn't agree with.

So is it our business to look into their business?

Why should foreigners try to influence other countries even though they probably have little knowledge of their history and culture? Is that over stepping the mark?

Or should you ensure the way you spend your hard earned money is going to places that do the right thing and not going to places where it causes suffering?

Should we just travel and have fun?

Can we achieve anything by trying to do "the right thing"?

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What do you think?

[erriuc]

Following what Paul said

Can of worms are fun. I guess what you are saying is that if we choose to hurt others or animals, lets do it in the most respectable way and take only what we need. This is a tricky thing... I guess this is one of the main reason why I became vegatarian. If we accept harm to chicken and beef, then why do we make a big fuss for whales, seals, etc. The very idea of taking care of some animals just to eat them later is quite repulsive. If we are in agreement with that, then we should also be in agreement with dictators who exploits their citizens and etc.

The fact that human love meat, is mainly because of the salt... comes from our very old ancestor... the Cro Magnon man. To proove that, lets see what our beautiful mass consumption market have produced... in chips and all this type of food... (chinese food as well), they put a specific salt (always forget that name). Anyways, its there to improve the taste. One thing that is always for sure, big corporations always understand how to take advantage of others weakness. So if you find a way to satisfy your salt level, then you won;t desire meat.

All of that to say, should we accept half mesures or go all the way with what we believe in.

thanks for the can of worms

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erriuc