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Default Boycotts - How Do You Go About It?

Dan Goodman wrote:

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>>However I've been thinking. If I did want to stage a boycott, how
>>would I know who to stay away from? I mean, in this country you're
>>not required to put a sign up at the door indicating your religious
>>affiliation - it's optional, of course, kosher businesses seem to
>>find it a useful marketing ploy to advertise themselves as such, but
>>nobody makes them and you just sort of assume that the proprietors
>>are Jewsh and you can stay away if you're boycotting Jewish
>>businesses at the moment.
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>My maternal grandmother claimed that all the pork stores in NYC were
>Jewish-owned. I doubt that; but some were.
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>I believe there are Turks and Arabs selling Greek food in Minneapolis.
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>Last year (if I remember right), someone on fr.rec.cuisine advocated a
>boycott against maple syrup to send the US a message.
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