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Ethical Consumer, Issue 175, Nov/Dec 2018 www.ethicalconsumer.org EC175 Nov/Dec 2018 £4.25 TAX AVOIDER How to avoid Amazon Amazon Alternatives to: Book Retailers, Tablets & E-readers, Streaming Services and Online Ethical Retailers Plus: What’s wrong with online shopping? CAPITAL AT RISK. INVESTMENTS ARE LONG TERM AND MAY NOT abundanceinvestment.com BE READILY REALISABLE. ABUNDANCE IS AUTHORISED AND REGULATED BY THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY (525432). YOU HATE: Socially irresponsible companies YOU LOVE: Being financially responsible ISAs for people exactly like you (although some are slightly taller) Only £32.50 Don’t just change per month with 1 GB data and unlimited your phone. minutes & texts Change the world. Next time you change your phone – A sustainable make it a change for good. supply chain with Choose the world’s most ethical improved working conditions smartphone from the UK’s only telecoms co-operative and we’ll donate a share of every bill to Ethical Consumer. A modular, dual-SIM phone that’s built to last www.thephone.coop/ethicalconsumer 01608 434 040 Fairphone 2 with Android 7 coming soon Editorial ethicalconsumer.org NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 Tim Hunt Editor It’s a time of new beginnings at Ethical Consumer. In over the last 10 years or so. This was certainly a step the last month we’ve launched a new campaign, a new forward in terms of engagement but did little to alleviate manifesto, a new website, and we’ve got our first ever any concerns one might have about the ethics of the response from Amazon to one of our product guide company. It still sits bottom of the table and scores a questionnaires! worst rating across our categories and so our boycott campaign continues. New website Dairy boycott Perhaps our biggest news is the launch of our new website. In a digital age it’s vital to have a website that As you’ll see on page 37, we’ve also launched a dairy responds to the latest technological developments. We boycott campaign alongside two other campaign believe this site will do that and give us some degree groups, Animal Aid and Viva!. The boycott is our of future proofing. Thanks to all those readers who latest intervention into the dairy milk market and is in answered our website questionnaires and came to our opposition to the badger cull. The cull is probably the focus groups way back in 2017, your input was vital and worst assault on UK wildlife this century and, despite helped us shape the how the new site works. evidence suggesting it is ineffective in stopping the spread of bovine TB, has now been expanded across The message from all those who responded was clear: the country. Although this campaign has proved they wanted a simpler site that was less cluttered, easier controversial for some of our readers (see Letters on to navigate and had better search functionality. We think page 46), we hope you’ll join us in boycotting dairy we’ve delivered on these things. The home page is a products at least for the duration of the cull. great example of where we’ve done this. The navigation to our product guides (which we know is what our readers are most interested in) is now front and centre, Manifesto we’ve slimmed down what appears on the home page Also, this issue we launch our new manifesto (see page so it’s easier to see the wood for trees, and the search 43) which updates our 2007 and 2001 versions. It is functionality is still there but much enhanced. designed to pressure politicians into making greater We’ve also made some innovations on the product commitments to ethical markets. This was another guides and company profile pages, switched to an open area of our work that was due an update and, over the source platform, added some new payment options, and coming months, we hope to persuade political parties to changed the way we serve ads. We hope you find the site consider addressing all our demands in some form. It’s easier to use and share. also been slimmed down to 10 aims that make it easier to communicate. A big thanks to all those who helped make it possible including Michael Wignall, developers Agile Collective, Heather Webb designer John Ossaway, Georgina and Elizabeth from Ethical Consumer, and many more. We’d also like to take this opportunity to say goodbye to co-op member and research director Heather Webb Read more at about this at: www.ethicalconsumer.org/ who is leaving us after nine years. Heather has written its-here-weve-launched-our-new-website many a product guide over the years as well as helping with subscriptions management. But perhaps her most Amazon valued work came in driving the screenings side of Away from the web, in this issue we’re revisiting our the business over the last two years, which has grown popular Amazon Alternative guides. It’s certainly not considerably over this time (we perform the first time we’ve updated them, but it is the first time ethical risk screenings for NGOs that Amazon have responded to one of our research looking to partner with commercial questionnaires. We send these to every company before companies). We wish her the very we rate them to make sure we get as accurate a picture best of luck with her new role as as possible about what the company is doing. Amazon Ethical Trade Associate for online had, until this issue, failed to respond to any of these clothing company ASOS. 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Contents ethicalconsumer.org NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 who’s who p22 Amazon Alternatives guides this Issue’s editors Tim Hunt 11 introduction proofing Ciara Maginness (littlebluepencil.co.uk) writers/researchers Jane Turner, Tim Hunt, Leonie book retailers Nimmo, Rob Harrison, Heather Webb, Anna Clayton, Joanna Long, Josie Wexler, Ruth Strange, Mackenzie 12 introduction Denyer, Clare Carlile, Francesca de la Torre regular contributors Simon Birch, Bryony Moore, 14 score table & Best Buys Shaun Fensom, Colin Birch 18 publishing houses design and layout Adele Armistead (Moonloft), Jane Turner ethical online retailers cover Adele Armistead (Moonloft), images © Elena Moiseeva and Odua | Dreamstime.com 19 introduction cartoons Marc Roberts, Andy Vine ad sales Simon Birch 20 score table & Best Buys subscriptions Elizabeth Chater, Francesca Thomas press enquiries Simon Birch, Tim Hunt p6 tablets & e-readers enquiries Francesca Thomas web editor Georgina Rawes 22 introduction thanks also to Eleanor Boyce, Merle Büter, 24 score table & Best Buys Jessica Aurie All material correct one month before cover date and © streaming services Ethical Consumer Research Association Ltd. ISSN 28 introduction 09 8608. 30 score table & Best Buys Printed with vegetable ink by RAP Spiderweb Ltd, c/o the Commercial Centre, Clowes Centre, Hollinwood, Oldham OL9 7LY. 0161 947 3700. news Paper: 100% post-consumer waste, chlorine-free and sourced from the only UK paper merchant supplying only recycled papers – Paperback 06 food & home (www.paperbackpaper.co.uk). Avaaz win, People’s Manifesto, Retail distribution is handled by Central Books on feature plastic news 0845 458 9911. Ethical Consumer is a member of INK 08 clothes (independent news collective), an association of radical 40 online shopping plastic pollution from clothes, and alternative publishers - www.ink.uk.com. shopping online versus the high Nike ad, Burberry goes fur free street We are a Living Wage employer, a multi-stakeholder 33 amazon in germany co-op, and Fair Tax Mark accredited. anti-Amazon activities in p0 Germany 35 ethical novice the trials and tribulations of about the advertisers boycotting Amazon ECRA checks out advertisers before accepting their ads 36 boycotts and reserves the right to refuse any advert. dairy, Pepsico, Costa Coffee, Covered in previous Product Guides: Co-operative Church of England phone & broadband (145), Kingfisher Toothpaste (165), Plamil, Vegetarian Shoes (162). 38 beyond consumerism Other advertisers: Abundance, Animal Aid, Bhopal seed saving Campaign, Book Aid, Gebana Farmers’ Market, Green Building Store, Infinity Wholefoods, Investing Ethically, 39 lush spring prize New Internationalist, Railway Kids, Shared Interest. launch of 2019 prize regulars 42 interview Ethical Consumer Research SACOM, Hong Kong-based NGO Association Ltd 34 Christmas gift subscriptions 43 manifesto Unit 21, 41 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M1 RF give a gift that lasts a year our new 2018 manifesto t: 0161 226 2929 (12 noon-6pm) e: [email protected] for general enquiries 46 letters 44 money [email protected] for subscriptions. a regular forum for readers’ views carbon divested funds, pension schemes, Energise Africa 50 inside view Follow us: @EC_magazine the war against plastic waste 45 tax justice tax justice in Nigeria Ethical Consumer Magazine Food and home NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 ethicalconsumer.org Avaaz wins case against Monsanto On 6th September, global campaign network Avaaz achieved a huge victory over Monsanto when the company’s case was thrown out by a judge. Back in January 2018, Monsanto served a subpoena on Avaaz, the global network of online activists with over 46 million people. Monsanto wanted the names and e-mail addresses and all other records of the organization that refer to Monsanto or glyphosate.
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