Ethical Consumer Magazine

31/10/2025

Our guide to bookshops will help you find the most ethical place to buy your next page-turner.

In the guide, we rate and rank 26 leading UK bookshops and give our unique Best Buys advice, recommended brands and brands to avoid.

The guide includes alternatives to Amazon and its various book-selling brands as well as suggesting ethical online and local bookshops, the best options for ebooks and audiobooks and lots more...

Head to our guide to bookshops here: https://bit.ly/3FeQDXe

29/10/2025

Take a look at our full shopping guide to see our Best Buy and Recommended brands, the highest scoring of which had an overall Ethiscore of 93/100 🍫 👉https://bit.ly/4hjjyLY

23/10/2025

In our latest guide, we've reviewed and ranked 31 chocolate brands including Nestle, Cadbury, Divine and Montezuma. We've looked into significant ethical issues such as palm oil, decolonisation and colonialism, as well as recommending brands with the best ethical practices.

Here's a sneak peak at our cocoa sourcing rating 👀 Where does your favourite brand sit?

🍫 Check out the full guide: https://bit.ly/4hjjyLY

21/10/2025

We're just over 2 weeks away from our annual conference!

https://bit.ly/3WPfzgM

Come together and join us for another day of insightful discussions and workshops, connecting with like minded people.

We will be taking a look at some of Ethical Consumer’s own work on challenging corporate power over the years, as well as issues surrounding tech that is being manipulated by some of the richest and most powerful on the planet.

Find the full day programme here: https://bit.ly/49evY5O

And if you can't make it to the day, we have a selection of online sessions taking place during the week: https://bit.ly/472c9xf

Who's in? ✋

02/10/2025

We've analyzed a long list of vegan food brands to see which are owned by non-vegan companies. Head to https://bit.ly/3JS8Z64 to find out more

30/09/2025

Help support us challenge corporate power.

Many large for-profit companies operate in terms of self-interest. Some of them have captured our democratic governments, media channels and overwhelmed us with misinformation and hate speech.

We are challenging this model and want a better world for all.

Listen to Mark Rylance tell you about our plans, and donate to our Crowdfunder 👉
https://youtu.be/bppyeLWld-k?feature=shared

Actor, director and playwright, Sir Mark Rylance, is helping us launch our Challenging Corporate Power CrowdfunderMost large for-profit companies are no long...

29/09/2025

Tickets on sale now: https://bit.ly/47QOcKc

Come together and join us for another day of insightful discussions and workshops, connecting with like minded people.

We will be taking a look at some of Ethical Consumer’s own work on challenging corporate power over the years, as well as issues surrounding tech that is being manipulated by some of the richest and most powerful on the planet.

Who's in? ✋

25/09/2025

Buying secondhand is one of the best ways to cut the carbon footprint of the products you buy. Giving new life to pre-loved items also helps tackle demand for water, raw materials and energy associated with their production.

Secondhand items are also often far far cheaper than their new counterparts, meaning that you could save significant amounts of money or buy a much better quality item that will work better and last you longer.

But how ethical are the secondhand online shops? In our latest guide, we review exactly that!

Head to the link to read more 👉 https://bit.ly/465iJCI

23/09/2025

Which 24 UK companies are undermining US democracy? Read the full article: https://bit.ly/3JS8RDC

22/09/2025

Most large for-profit companies are no longer operating in the long-term interest of humans, animals or the planet.

Giant tech companies and oil multinationals are the most obvious problem, but the language of growth and profit has grown to control much of the way the rest of the world works, too.

Ethical Consumer has long identified challenging corporate power as a core part of its mission and identity, which is why we are launching a crowdfunder to support our work in this area and aiming to raise £50,000 by the 1st of November!

We think that, with 36 years of research and campaigning expertise in this area, now would be a great time for us to increase our contribution to the wider debate and campaigns around corporate power, in addition to our work on ethical shopping guides.

Find out more about the campaign here: https://bit.ly/46wx3mI

19/09/2025

Win one of six delicious Afternoon Tea Bundles from Ethical Consumer Best Buy True Origin Food to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight!

On Friday 26th September, we will send a link in our weekly newsletter that will give you the chance to sign up and enter.

If you’re not already part of our weekly newsletter community, don’t worry; there’s still time to sign up before Friday’s mail goes out - head to bit.ly/4iFr8k9 to sign up.*

Those who enter will be in with the chance to win 1 of 6 Afternoon Tea Bundle’s from True Origin, one of our Best Buy companies. Each bundle contains Traidcraft Breakfast Blend Tea, Speculoos Biscuits, Guava Jam and Hibiscus Tea.

True Origin Foods works directly with a network of smallholder farmers and producers in the global south to source the finest ethical foods.

As a WFTO Guaranteed Member, True Origin Foods adheres to fair trade principles. They believe this is the fairest way to do business and as a social enterprise based in the West of Scotland, they also apply these principles across their UK operations, creating employment and striving to reduce their environmental impact.

*New sign-ups must join by Wednesday 24th September.

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