Boycott Bush report

This is a free buyer's guide from Ethical Consumer, the UK's leading alternative consumer organisation. We research the social and environmental records of companies.

More detailed versions of this guide are available. See the links at the bottom of the page.

Brand	Rating
MBNA	7.5
Lucozade	5
Microsoft	4.5
Budweiser	4
Walkers Crisps	4
Maxwell House	3.5
Esso	3
Texaco	2
Asda	0.5

The higher the rating the more ethical the brand. This whole scorecard was last updated from our database on 14 October 2009 but some individual company ratings may have changed since then. Up to the minute information can be seen by subscribers using Ethiscore.
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Boycott Bush Report - G8 Special

Top Ten UK brands to boycott.

Ethical Consumer outlines its own boycott campaign to encourage the US government to take climate change seriously.

George Bush's visit to the G8 in Edinburgh is expected to bring about no change in his irrational position on global warming. We have therefore chosen to highlight the top ten brands of some of his biggest corporate donors here on our ethiscore website.

We are asking consumers to boycott these brands until the companies:

publicly call on him to support the Kyoto protocol, and
cease all political funding of the current administration until he does so.

If you want to support the campaign, it would be great if you could let the companies know how you feel. We hope that the company email facility on this website will help you.

By clicking on each product name on the table opposite, and then the company name on the next page, you'll be taken to a company information page. Choosing 'tell the company you don't like its ethics' will take you to the email area of this site.

More information about Ethical Consumer's Boycott Bush campaign appears at www.boycottbush.net

Alternative brands to buy for the top ten are as follows:

Petrol When Ethical Consumer magazine reported on petrol and diesel in February 2003, its recommended Best Buys were Murco followed by Shell. (Also a subscriber report on this site)

Coffee Choose coffee that is Fairtrade and/or organic, such as Caf�direct, Clipper, Percol, Equal Exchange and the Co-op's own brand. (Also a subscriber report on this site)

Microsoft Open Office (download for free from www.openoffice.org) (See also the computers report on this site)

Credit Cards The Co-operative Bank produces various credit cards

Supermarkets Local, independently-owned shops, Budgens, the Co-op, Sainsbury's

Soft Drinks Barr's, BB Soda, Cabana, Fentimans, Irn Bru, Kia, Mecca Cola, Qibla Cola, Simply Citrus, Tizer, Vimto, Whole Earth (also a subscriber report on this site).

Beer When Ethical Consumer magazine reported on beer in February 2002, Wadworth's and Marston's came out as best of the UK-wide brands.

Internet service providers The Phone Co-op, GreenNet

Crisps Tra'fo, Jonathan Crisp, Stour Valley, Kettle Chips, Highlander, Seabrook

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