Ethical Consumer Magazine is an indispensable read for any independent thinker.
Each issue features detailed shopping guides, news of ethical products and campaigns, in-depth features, opinion, comment, boycott updates, readers' letters, and much more. Discover the truth behind the products we buy and the companies we buy them from.
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Out mid February
Palm Oil Special
Product Guides to: Chocolate, Biscuits, Margarine, Spreads & Butter, Bread
Features: Lush Spring Prize, Our new tax havens list
Ethical Finance special: guides to current accounts, savings accounts, cash isas, app banks, ethical pensions, ethical investment funds, home insurance, car insurance
Feature: The Modern Slavery Act - are companies complying
Product Guides: Fridges & Freezers, Washing Machines, Cookers, ovens & hobs, Kettles
Features: Which cameras and binoculars are wildlife friendly
Product Guides to Fragrances, Underwear, Soft Drinks and Fruit Juice
Special Report: Carbon offset schemes
Product Guides: Milk, Plant milk, Bottled water, Beer & Lager
Feature: Companies House, Lush Spring Prize
Product Guides: High Street Clothes Shops, Ethical Clothes Shops, Jeans, Designer Brands
Features: Fairtrade gold
Product Guides: Electricity & Gas, Light bulbs, , Gas Boilers, Solar PV Panels
Features: What's all the fuss about B Corps?
Product Guides: Bananas, Baked Beans, Supermarkets, Tinned Tuna
Features: How to boycott Trump
Product Guides: Shampoo, Toothpaste, Make-up, Laundry Detergent
Features: The growth of the ethical market, Phasing out the for-profit corporation
Product Guides: Batteries, Bookshops, Mobile Phone Networks, Razors & Shavers
Features: What's wrong with the NFU?
Product Guides: Laptops & Hybrids, Mobile phones, Tablets & E-readers
Features: Boycott Brexit, Animal welfare in Japan
Product Guides: Shoes, Trainers, Walking Boots, Sportswear
Features: How can we challenge Amazon's monopoly power?
Product Guides: Current & Savings Accounts, Mortgages, Pensions, Cash ISAs, Fossil-free Funds
Product Guides: Meat-free sausages & burgers, Rice, Cooking Oil, Supermarkets
Features: Veg box schemes
Product guides: Televisions, Paid-for TV, Cameras
Features: The links between binocular companies and hunting for sport, Fighting conflict minerals in electronics
Product guides: Clothes Shops, Jeans, Waterproof jackets
Features: Synthetic biology
Corporate lobbying at the COP21 climate summit