On fast food funding of politics...
Apr. 19th, 2012 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Chicken or the Gays: Make a Choice About Eating Chick-fil-A:
If you'd really like to support gays and lesbians in a world lousy with Chick-fil-As, how about this tactic instead: From now on, don't fucking eat at Chick-fil-A if you are a person who believes gays are equal to you and deserving of equal treatment under the law. No equivocating and no buying back karma with pity donations to gay-rights groups. Simply avoid the chain for as long as it upholds its homophobic ties. Full stop.I made the decision to do exactly that. I don't miss it. At all.
Is this really that hard to do? Is Chick-fil-A so delicious that people are willing to ignore their most cherished principles in order to eat a couple handfuls of its sodium-drenched chicken wads? I haven't eaten Chick-fil-A in about a decade, but the last time I did, I don't remember it being all that spectacular. The meat was average and the buns were soggy, soaked through with butter and brine from anemic pickle discs. It certainly wasn't good enough food to get me to forsake my belief that gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry. Which is why, when I found out Chick-fil-A's Southern Baptist leaders believed otherwise, I stopped eating there and started eating at the thousands of other places that serve greasy, hastily made, inexpensive sandwiches.
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Date: 2012-04-20 12:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-20 01:22 am (UTC)Their breakfast wasn't bad, but I hardly have time for it.
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Date: 2012-04-20 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-24 05:58 pm (UTC)I'm participating in hundreds of boycotts I'm barely aware of; it doesn't really count unless I'm actually making a decision to abstain. But I'm not about to break this one anytime soon.
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Date: 2012-04-20 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-20 02:49 pm (UTC)i freely admit i miss it.
but i felt guilty when i eat there so i finally stopped eating there. like the article says, there are other places with good chicken and lemonade and salads. ... unfortunately not cole slaw. damn.
plus, Trinket ate there last season during rehearsal and got food poisoning literally ON SITE about half an hour after eating. she had to go home. she said (half tongue-in-cheek) it was because she knew better than to go against her principles and would never eat there again. i haven't eaten there since shortly before that either. *g*
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Date: 2012-04-20 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-20 07:52 pm (UTC)If you polled my coworkers, Chick-Fil-A is the greatest place ever. Then again, they all tend to be more conservative than I am, so I don't think they have much political issue with them.