A friend of mine (actually a friend, not me, I have known forever not to buy soda streams I PROMISE I'M NOT A LIB angry-hex ) wants to actually try to boycott Israeli products (finally). They have a soda stream though and they want to continue to use it, but they don't want to buy the cartridges from soda stream because they're don't want to support genocide. Since this is a noble goal I want to help them.

So what are their options, where do they buy cartridges for their soda stream that don't support literal genocide. This is their Very Important Treat and they really want their treat and we all deserve our treats so I'm trying to help them. Thank you.

Thanks everyone this was super helpful...looks like you just buy an adapter and then I've got a bunch of local brew stores that will fill the tank!

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    BDS is an organized boycott movement with clear demands and this would be part of that

    boycotts are a useful tool in concert with an organized political movement (like BDS or the striking workers at Kellogg's) but can be ultimately counterproductive when simply done as individual purchasing decisions:

    The revolution will not be bought: Ethical consumption is seductive but dangerous to the values ethical consumers seek to promote

    In short, a strong belief that ethical consumption will lead to ethical practices is not warranted – purchasing as voting is a weak feedback mechanism at best and there are other actors who are able to influence the system. The danger, however, comes in believing that this mechanism can make substantial political change. Ethical consumption gives the individual the illusion of contributing to progress; of “doing their part” by making purchasing decisions. This illusion can detract, and probably has detracted, from trying to put forward an avowedly political agenda that seeks to mobilise people collectively to make the changes they support. Instead, it individualises ethics, it individualises politics and it reaffirms us as consumers rather than citizens – it is a part of the profit-maximising, pathologically-externalising neoliberal market system that has caused many of the problems ethical consumerism seeks to alleviate, rather than being an alternative.