Now you know what ethical consumerism is, you should ask yourself why you should shop ethically. By
carefully choosing what we buy and looking at where the brands come from, we as
consumers can decide to choose only those products that have a positive impact
on people, the planet and animals. In
addition, being part of a movement of people who make similar positive choices
helps to create a great impact on the world around us.
There are four main reason for humans to shop ethically :
- Because it’s good for the environment
- Because it’s good for society
- Because it’s good for animals’ welfare
- Because it’s good for your body and soul
GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT :
Nowadays, humans are facing with many environment
issues, from global warming to pesticide pollution and changing of the climate.
All those issues are in part be bind to the way we shop our goods. In today’s
world of fast fashion, shops not only offer seasonal collection, but offer also
new line on a weekly basis, people often buy more clothes that they really
need, and it has a huge impact on the environment (BBC, Radhika Sanghani, 2018).
However, the production process of those clothes is
usually including pesticides used in cotton farming and toxic dyes in
manufacturing. That production process impact is wrecking little by little the
planet (Keith Tyrell, Director PAN UK, 2017).
In this case, where shopping good deteriorates the
environment, shop ethically would mean to
buy only the goods you need (not more food
that you need, not more clothes that you need…), and when you are buying them,
to verify the impact of the production
of those goods on the environment.
To learn more about it, you can read the article :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5a1a43b5-cbae-4a42-8271-48f53b63bd07
GOOD FOR
SOCIETY :
Today, consumers
have a dual role as citizens comprising society and as economic actors
who buy products. Consumer may experience various conflict between social
values and personal values. Moreover, these consumers’ conflict can be affected
by the regulation of retail markets by the government (Research paper of Adele
Copola, Fabio Verneau, Fransesco Carraciolo and Theresa Panico, 2017).
Indeed, many products we purchased have been produced
by companies that pay their workers by poverty wages, that’s good for the
customer because they don’t have expensive products, but the social value is
poor because of the poverty wages of the workers. If society “continue to pay less and less, destroying the purchasing power of the
consumers who would make less money” (Laureen
Dixon, 2017).
In this way, buying ethical means to purchase products only from companies that respect
their values and commitments to our communities but also by
buying products that mentioned that there are “Fairtrade accreditation” or
“Fair Tax Mark”.
GOOD FOR
ANIMAL WELFARE :
The consummation of animals represents an important
problem nowadays. Each year, human consume more than 53 billion of animals (for
human food and for apparel) (Maria Russel, 2015). Those animals are not always
treated humanely (Georges Monbiot, The Guardian, 2015). Moreover, a lot of
animal are testing for cosmetics and treated in the wrong way. Some factories
farming are also treated their animals by not respecting them (Gerhard
Heldmaier, Chairperson
of the Senate Commission on Animal Protection and Experimentation of the DFG,
2016).
In this way, purchase
and consume ethically can help to improve, in a number of ways, a lot of
conditions for animals. For example, concerning products which have been tested
on animals before, the best thing to do is to purchase products only in the
brand that refuse
to do their test on animals.
GOOD FOR BODY
AND SOUL :
Buying ethically is good for your health and
well-being. Indeed, everyone knows that a healthy and balanced diet is good for
your health, which very often means leaving behind products rich in sugar and
salt, which are very often marketed irresponsibly to children. It is therefore
important to defend sustainable brands and reduce consumption.
There is something very satisfying about ethical
shopping. It is often difficult to define, but those who make ethical purchases
feel empowered knowing that the small changes they make are a vote that can
have significant environmental and social impacts.
To conclude, we can say that ethical consumption can
be the best way to consume while respecting the world around us, and that is
why people should shop ethically.
Thanks again for reading this article, I hope you enjoy it ! Feel free to ask question and to put comments on the blog.
See you next monday to talk about How could you be an ethical consumer (clic on this title).
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