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CONSUMER ETHICS was created to help us understand how our purchasing power can help or harm the world around us.

Members: 65
Latest Activity: Dec 10, 2011

WELCOME TO CONSUMER ETHICS

Anyone who pays attention at all should not be surprised to learn that how we spend our money can profoundly influence social and economic justice, environmental preservation or degradation, animal welfare, and democratic freedoms—especially in third-world countries.

Of course, it is difficult to always be 100% ethical in everything we do. No one lives a blameless life, and in our capitalist culture it is very difficult to monitor and be aware of every injustice that occurs for the sake of profit. Clearly, most economic or consumer injustices take place out of sight – and therefore out of mind for most of us.

Add to that the sheer burden of just getting through the day: working, commuting, doing chores, meeting our obligations and responsibilities, etc., that it seems damn near impossible to be mindful of how, what, and even whom we consume day after day. But doesn’t mean that we can’t try to make better consumer choices as much as possible.

The Consumer Ethics group will allow us to share information that will help us understand and address the above issues and become conscientious consumers by:

Identifying unscrupulous corporations that exploit people or animals; or maintain and increase social poverty, inequality, and deprivation
Allowing us to share information on fair trade products or services
Exposing workplace injustices, sweatshops, and child labor violations
Identifying companies that value their employees and customers, that promote living wages and equality and fairness in the workplace, provide safe and healthy working environments, and maintain sustainable business and environmental practices
Finding products that are safe to use or healthy to consume
Recognizing consumer addiction and consumer propaganda
Understanding and voting against economic legislation that is unfair or predatory

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. A nation can flounder as readily in the face of moral and spiritual bankruptcy as it can through financial bankruptcy. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, April, 1967

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Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on December 9, 2011 at 6:30pm: Thanks for watching. I want to spend some time checking out that site.

Comment by Richard C Brown on December 9, 2011 at 6:29pm: Thanks Dallas.I like new video added

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on December 9, 2011 at 1:40pm: I added a new video to the homepage. Please check it out.

Comment by Steph S. on September 14, 2011 at 8:34pm: That stuff at Target didn't even look that good.

Must buy more junk! haha

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on September 14, 2011 at 6:08pm: Just what people need, more crap: Designer's line creates Black Friday-like buzz, crashes Target website

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on August 2, 2011 at 9:06am

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on July 17, 2011 at 7:15pm: Thanks for joining Richard. I'm afraid the group is not really all that busy, but I do think there is lots of good info already posted to go through.

Comment by Richard C Brown on July 17, 2011 at 10:17am: Thanks for adding this site Dallas.This topic has been of interest for a long time and I think the American public is also interested in what is happening in the USA and around the World.

This is about real life something that has been kicked to the curb too often."End Human Bankruptcy" an idea whose time has come.

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on April 21, 2011 at 4:51pm: Download Green America's free Guide to Fair Trade publication here, and here also is their Guide to Ending Sweatshops.