Ethical Consumer

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We're an indie, NPO, CO-OP & world leading ethical consumption magazine, est. 1989.

A graphic image with the Ethical Consumer logo at the top and the following text: NEW GUIDE: AI COMPANIES This guide rates 12 AI chatbots and LLMs, including ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek and Copilot. We look at the ethical issues behind generative AI chatbots and LLMs including: digital privacy concerns excessive water and land demands of data centres carbon emissions of mega data centres connections between AI tech companies and military impact on workers in different industries workers' rights within the AI tech supply chain potential social and personal harm from using AI positive benefits of using AI tech
Image of the Ethical Consumer front cover with a tube of sunscream in the middle of the page, with the headline reading "Factor Fiction: The truth about sunscreen brands"
Not My Cup Of Tea Ethical Consumer magazine cover issue 218
A square image with a faded photo in a circle of reusable packaged groceries being placed in a box by a hand. On the top right hand corner is the Ethical Consumer Logo, in the middle is the text that says "Best Buy giveaway with: Yoyo Grocery Co", which is in their logo. Under in smaller text it says "To celebrate Yoyo joining the Best Buy community, we'll be running a giveaway in our Friday newsletter." In the bottom right hand corner is the Ethical Consumer Best Buy logo.
Photo of a female presenting person holding a cardboard sign that says #PEOPLE NOT PROFIT on it, the person is wearing a black face mask and a blue top, with long brown hair.
The image is a cartoon of Amazon founder Jeff Bezoz presenting an Amazon shop on the high street, the rest of the high street is greyed out with 'Closed' and 'For sale' signs up in all the windows, apart from the Amazon shop. There is a speech bubble above Jeff Bazos' head saying 'As you can see we're going our bit to breathe new life into the high street!'
A photograph from what looks like a protest, of a white banner with the words FREE PALESTINE in large black text, next to the word FREE is an image of the Palestinian flag.
A green background with the front cover of Ethical Consumer Issue 211 in front in orange. The front cover has an image of a mobile phone in the middle, with a green tick on the screen which says "make the right call" in large text. The front cover also says "Special report: The latest consumer climate gap" and "Shopping guides to: mobile phones, eggs and egg replacers, laptops and binoculars & sports optics."