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Menstrual Cups www.ethicalconsumer.org EC179 July/August 2019 £4.25 Pills & Profits Is choosing a painkiller still an ethical headache? Product guides to: Over-the-counter medicines Menstrual products Plus: Should we boycott Toilet paper Boots The Chemist? Nappies Editorial ethicalconsumer.org JULY/AUGUST 2019 Tim Hunt Editor As we went to print Donald Trump was in the UK, options for these products including reusable, organic telling us how well the US is doing on climate change and plastic free varieties. and making it clear that the NHS would have to be part Our third guide features an entirely disposable product, of any post Brexit trade deal (or maybe not). Whether toilet paper. Ubiquitous in the western world but less deliberately meant to confuse or the ramblings of a man so around the world this is a product that the phrase detached from reality, Trump’s befuddled messages ‘single-use’ was made for. Worryingly companies are circled round the edges of issues that UK citizens are using less recycled materials and more virgin forests beginning, in much greater numbers, to take seriously. than ever as people switch to luxury and quilted brands. Firstly climate change and the ecological crisis. Over Thankfully there are a number of ethical brands in the past couple of months we’ve seen significant street the market using 100% recycled materials. Meanwhile demonstrations, direct actions and school strikes, that some consumers are switching to less conventional have enjoyed popular support from across the political alternatives. spectrum and society in general. As a result councils have declared climate emergencies and political parties have promised change, albeit at a rate too slow for those Unpalatable medicines on the streets. We cover some of these protests in more Our final guide (which was chosen by readers in a recent detail on page 39. survey) looks at over-the-counter medicines – things like painkillers and cough & cold remedies. This was Plastic everywhere a tough guide to write and even harder to find strong ethical alternatives that have the backing of rigorous One of the issues that is now front and centre of the scientific research. environmental debate is plastic pollution. While its contribution to climate change is less significant, it has It is a market with clear systemic flaws and beset with become a symbol of our collective neglect of global eco- ethical issues, from animal testing, to price inflation and systems. irresponsible marketing. In this Issue we look at two product areas that have Our accompanying feature on Boots The Chemist become synonymous with the word disposable, speaks to many of these issues. But it also lays out the and often contain unnecessary plastic; nappies and dangers of the creeping privatisation of the NHS and menstrual products. the profiteering that will likely accompany it. Trump, US drug companies and their allies in the UK are promoting While these items are entirely necessary, the need for their vision for our health service but, there is significant them to contain plastics is under much more serious resistance. So, while buying ethical over-the-counter scrutiny, as is the mantra that they need to be disposable. medicine is difficult at present, there are always avenues In our guides we look at a number of more ethical for consumer and citizen action within our pages. Rice guide now online Our newly updated guide to 22 brands of rice is now live on our website. The guide looks at: • rice’s impact on the climate • climate change’s impact on rice farmers • buying sustainable and ‘fair’ rice • rice miles • women’s rights and workers’ rights • GM rice and seed sovereignty Check it out in our food and drink section on our website. Subscriptions JULY/AUGUST 2019 www.ethicalconsumer.org One year’s subscription includes: Six issues of the magazine (print and/or digital edition) Access to our subscriber-only website Access to over 130 product guides online with daily updated company scores, the stories behind the scores, customisable ratings, and downloadable back issues. Overseas Subscriptions Only £29.95 a year With print magazine £39.95 With digital magazine (pdf or flip book) £29.95 Give a Gift Subscription For every gift subscription, we will pay for a new organic olive tree sapling in Palestine, where olive trees and their harvest provide the livelihood for entire communities. 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Coming soon: • mobile phones • email providers • makeup • televisions • laptops • toothpaste clothes shops Next issue published alternative clothes brands jeans mid-August Contents www.ethicalconsumer.org JULY/AUGUST 2019 who’s who news product guides this Issue’s editor Tim Hunt and Jane Turner over-the-counter medicines proofing Ciara Maginness (littlebluepencil.co.uk) p24 writers/researchers Jane Turner, Tim Hunt, Rob 10 introduction Harrison, Anna Clayton, Joanna Long, Josie Wexler, Ruth Strange, Mackenzie Denyer, Clare Carlile, 12 score table & Best Buys Francesca de la Torre, Alex Crumbie, Tom Bryson 13 misleading trials regular contributors Simon Birch, Colin Birch design and layout Adele Armistead (Moonloft), Jane 15 spotlight on Bayer Turner 15 animal testing cover Adele Armistead (Moonloft) cartoons Marc Roberts, Andy Vine, Richard Liptrot ad sales Simon Birch menstrual products subscriptions Elizabeth Chater, Francesca Thomas 17 introduction press enquiries Simon Birch, Tim Hunt enquiries Francesca Thomas 18 score table & Best Buys web editor Sophie Billington thanks also to Marlous Veldt, Merle Büter, Haneen 20 reusables Hameed, Andra Maciuca 06 food & home 24 plastic free veggie food labels, wet wipes, All material correct one month before cover date and © Stop Funding Hate & the Co- 25 period positivity . Ethical Consumer Research Association Ltd ISSN op, Typhoo’s tea transparency, 26 period poverty 09 8608. Sainsbury’s cuts back on plastic 27 make your own Printed with vegetable ink by RAP Spiderweb Ltd, 08 clothes c/o the Commercial Centre, Clowes Centre, Hollinwood, toilet paper Oldham OL9 7LY. 0161 947 3700. Primark suppliers in Bangladesh, Paper: 100% post-consumer waste, chlorine-free and clothes Made in Ethiopia, Prada 28 introduction sourced from the only UK paper merchant supplying drops fur only recycled papers – Paperback 30 score table & Best Buys (www.paperbackpaper.co.uk). 09 boycotts Sultan of Brunei’s hotels, 30 recycled paper and bamboo Retail distribution is handled by Central Books on Amazon’s lack of climate change 33 alternatives 0845 458 9911. Ethical Consumer is a member of INK plan (independent news collective), an association of radical and alternative publishers - www.ink.uk.com. 38 ethical novice nappies the trials and tribulations of 34 introduction & reusables We are a Living Wage employer, a multi-stakeholder buying ethical nappies co-op, and Fair Tax Mark accredited. 36 score table & Best Buys 39 climate Extinction Rebellion 42 tax justice new Corporate Accountability features Network, Church Action for Tax about the advertisers Justice 40 Lush Spring Prize latest news from the event in May ECRA checks out advertisers before accepting their ads 47 money and reserves the right to refuse any advert. St Ives Community Land Trust, 44 Boots the Chemist Abundance Covered in previous Product Guides: carbon divested funds, Save Our trusted brand or predatory (177), Co-operative phone & broadband (145), multinational? Kingfisher Toothpaste (165) Windmill Organics (178), Bank news Infinity Wholefoods (178). Other advertisers: Bhopal Campaign, Book Aid, Freedom From Torture, Green Building Store, Investing p40 regulars Ethically, Polyp, Railway Kids, Shared Interest. 04 subscriptions Ethical Consumer Research take one out or give a gift Association Ltd 48 letters Unit 21, 41 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M1 RF a regular forum for readers’ views t: 0161 226 2929 (12 noon-6pm) 50 inside view e: [email protected] for general enquiries [email protected] for subscriptions. how to manage eco anxiety Follow us: @EC_magazine Ethical Consumer Magazine Food and home JULY/AUGUST 2019 ethicalconsumer.org ‘Veggie discs’ to replace veggie Boots, Morrisons and Wilko – are unsuitable to carry the new logo. These retailers were not embracing the new standard. burgers in EU crackdown on food Since MCS first raised the issue of wet wipes ending up on our beaches as far back as 2016, all the major retailers have labels removed plastic from their own brand ‘flushable’ wipes where it The European parliament’s agriculture committee have existed. Many had been unaware that there was plastic in these approved a ban on veggie products using terms currently wipes at all. associated with meat products such as burger or “We urge people not to buy these products and to consider sausages. The Brussels Bureaucrats claim that the names using more environmentally friendly alternatives to single use are misleading for consumers. wet wipes. Any wet wipe without the Fine to Flush logo should If the measures are voted for by the full parliament, veggie be placed in the bin,” said Laura Foster, MCS Head of Clean sausages, tofu steaks and soya escalopes will also have to be Seas. rebranded to Quorn ‘tubes’, tofu ‘slabs’ and soya ‘slices’ in a Of course, an alternative to single-use wet wipes is a reusable move that some MEPs suspect bears the fingerprints of the meat product like a washable flannel. See the nappies, menstrual industry. products and toilet paper guides in this magazine for more George Gill, CEO at The Vegan Society, said: “As consumers reusable alternatives to ‘disposable’ products . are increasingly moving away from eating animals, the demand for vegan products is growing. There’s no denying that meat, dairy and egg industries are feeling threatened by this and Stop Funding Hate keeps up desperately trying to restrict the marketing of vegan products.
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