Ethical shopping. (The Delicious Revolution).The Good Shopping Guide is a handy tool for ethical shoppers, with a large 'Good Food and Drink' section. NI readers in Britain can order it at a special price of [pounds sterling]10 (including p&p). Send a cheque made out to The Ethical Marketing Ethical marketing is an honest and factual representation of a product, delivered in a framework of cultural and social values for the consumer. It promotes qualitative benefits to its customers, which other similar companies, products or services fail to recognize. Group, New Internationalist New Internationalist is a magazine from New Internationalist Publications, a co-operative-run publisher based in Oxford, England. It has editorial and sales offices in Toronto, Canada; Adelaide, Australia; Christchurch, New Zealand; and Lewiston, USA. Reader Offer, The Good Shopping Guide, 240 Portobello Road Portobello Road is a road in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London, England. It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove. , London W11 1LL (write your address on the back of the cheque so they know where to send your copy). Or buy online www.thegoodshoppingguide.co.uk FAIR-TRADE BRANDS guarantee a fair price for farmers in developing countries. To find fair-trade organizations in your country contact the International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT), 30 Murdock Road, Bicester, Oxon OX6 7RF, UK www.ifat.org ORGANIC FOOD systems aim to avoid the use of artificial chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers. Buying organic is the only way to guarantee you won't be eating genetically modified genetically modified Adjective (of an organism) having DNA which has been altered for the purpose of improvement or correction of defects genetically modified genetic adj [food etc] → foods or food with antibiotics. It is better for soil quality and for wildlife. If the organic food you buy has been flown half-way round the world, however, it's probably more eco-friendly to go for local, non-organic food. Australia: The Organic Federation of Australia The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed a federation. www.ofa.org.au Britain: Soil Association www.soilassociation.org.uk North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. : The Organic Consumers Association www.purefood.org. CO-OPERATIVES started supermarkets as we know them today in 19th-century Britain. Independent local retailers were controlled by their consumer members, who sold food at prices working people could afford. The only supermarket that maintains the co-op tradition in Britain is the Co-op network, with a strong social-responsibility brief and fair-trade brands. Recently it put a penny on the price of milk to aid ailing British dairy farmers Dairy Farmers is one of Australia's largest and oldest dairy manufacturers, established in 1900, supplying products to local and international markets such as eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. (see page 10). Its home-shopping website is www.co-op2u.com www.co-op.co.uk/index has links to international food co-ops worldwide. Contact your local environmental group to find other ideas for ethical food sourcing. |
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