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An indispensable read for the ethical and green shopper, finding out the truth behind the products we buy and the companies we buy them from.

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Contents
Each issue has Buyer's Guides, Features, News, the latest
on consumer boycotts, reader's letters, profiles, cartoons
and much more.
Table of Contents for Issue 104 (pdf)


Buyer's Guides
From banks to baked beans, each issue has several guides
to buying ethically, covering the social and environmental impacts of a product and the records of the companies behind them.

In addition to mainstream goods we offer a comprehensive guide to the 'alternative' market. If it's organic, free range, green, recycled, vegan, vegetarian, fair trade or ethical you should find details in Ethical Consumer.

Complex issues are simplified with easy-to-use tables that show important facts at-a-glance and Best Buys for each product.
Buyer's Guide to Computers - Issue 104 (pdf)


Features
In-depth features on talking points and dilemmas for the ethical shopper.
UK Companies Profiting from Darfur - Issue 104 (pdf)


News Pages
The latest on the UK shopping market, human rights, environmental and animal welfare campaigns, boycott updates, ethical finance and more.
Money News - Issue 104 (pdf)
News - Issue 104 (pdf)


Regulars
Cartoons, letters, low-carbon lifestyle advice, 'CSR Speak' reading between the lines of companies' PR machines, interviews and profiles.
Letters Page - Issue 104 (pdf)



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Ethical Columnist, The Observer



Ethical Consumer Magazine
ISSUE 112
May/ June 2008

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