This is why we’re not going to eat their pizza (other than quality)… the founder of Domino’s is Thomas Monaghan, who also started the Thomas Moore Law Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Thomas Moore Center calls itself the “sword and shield for people of faith”; it has defended various pro-life groups and supports the “Intelligent Design” “movement.”
I have no doubt that Thomas Monaghan still owns shares of Domino’s, which means that of every pizza you buy from them, some (admittedly small) portion of the profit will support ID… Personally, I would prefer that our money goes towards the FSM pirate ship.
Thanks for this valuable info, Sam! I haven’t eaten their food in years, but now I know to be even more diligent. I need to make a list of other companies to boycott. Isn’t there some website for that? Please tell us who else you boycott. I trust you implicitly.
Another restaurant to avoid is Carl’s Jr. Carl Karcher has given a lot of money to organizations, particularly Catholic ones, that oppose the right of women to choose their own reproductive pathways.
Let’s see… I avoid Domino’s, Wal-Mart, KFC & McD’s (the food just sucks) and Burger King (worked there when I was 16 and still can’t stand the sight of it).
there’s a good list here, though boycotting airlines for transporting monkeys used in research seems a bit excessive to a realist like myself. http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/boycotts_list.htm
I looked at the website concerning boycotts of companies. There were several that the reader was asked to boycott, including Starbucks, because they use genetically modified crops.
It seems to me that the general avoidance of genetically modified crops is unwarranted. After all, virtually every plant we consume has been genetically modified using selective breeding. The same is true for the domesticated animals that we consume. In fact, we do genetic modification of the human gene pool when we select breeding partners.
The issue is the really the fear of people for the methods of genetic modification, not modification itself. Selective breeding is seen as natural, and, therefore, somehow better than the more direct method of inserting or deleting genes directly. Natural, however, is not equivalent to good. After all, natural products must include HIV, cholera, malaria, influenza, ring worm, prions, athlete’s foot fungus, and so forth. That is, natural means neither good or bad. Good and bad are human values, and nature as a whole does not have human values. The real test is whether or not a particular genetically modified crop or a bad consequence of natural selective breeding has a probable bad outcome. The entire method cannot be damned. By analogy, reading and writing should not be banned just because someone wrote Mein Kampf.
Peace and good health,
Baldzilla
OMG just eat the food who cares who is behind it u people r crazy like bam crazy just eat fatties
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