Ethical goods shopper. Here is how I am ethical in practice.
Food
If you think you have no power as ethical consumer then you are wrong. Each one of us has enormous power. Every item we buy we make a statement. A statement weather we support ethical way of life or not! Here is an extract of very informative book I have read called Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
"No body in the USA is forced to buy fast food. The first step toward meaningful change is by far the easiest: stop buying it. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessman. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit. The usefulness of the market, its effectiveness as a tool, cuts both ways. The real power of the American consumer has not yet been unleashed. The heads of Burger Kind, IFC, and McDonald's should feel daunted; they're outnumbered. They are three of them and almost three hundred million of you. A good boycott, a refusal to buy, can speak much louder than words. Sometimes the most irresistible force is the most mundane.
Pull open the glass door, feel the rush of cool air, walk inside, get in line, and look around you, look at the kids working in the kitchen, at the customers in their seats, at the ads for the latest toys, study backlit color photographs above the counter, think about where the food came from, about how and where it was made, about what is set in motion by every single fast food purchase, the ripple effect near and far, think about it. Then place your order. Or turn and walk out the door. It's not too late. Even in this fast food nation, you can still have it your way."
100% recycled toilet paper
Buy fair trade bananas and support organic farming, fair working conditions and fair wages!
Bio D – Washing up liquid. As you know Bio D is one of the most ethical range of house hold products out there.
New Balance trainers. Switched form Nike 8.5 to New Balance 9 on Ethicalscore.org
Not as high switch as from Colgate toothpaste 3 to Green People Tooth Pace 15 on ethicalscore.org but never the less a climb up on ethical consumer. A climb up on being more earth friendly.
Organic free range eggs - it don't get better than this. Buy this product you show that you are worth it and love your self as you give your self the best food there is. They are also produced in UK so reduce pollution that would result from transporting it from abroad! Ah having good food and supporting local farmers. The supreme good!
