Describe the item that you looked up on The Good Guide. What did you learn about

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Describe the item that you looked up on The Good Guide. What did you learn about this item’s environmental and social impacts? Were you surprised by its rankings? Given what you have learned about social problems, do you see ethical consumerism as a viable form of activism? Do you find yourself motivated to partake in such efforts; utilizing such resources as The Good Guide and The Better World Shopper? Why or why not?

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I looked for Our teddie peanut butter from The good guide. I was surprised to see the ranking of 10. This product is certified by Oransic USDA. this is environmental friendly. Making products uses resources , including the materials used and the energy needed to make it. The manufactured product has envirnomental and social effects. The good guide had reduced the environmental effect by using the environment friendly products that are being used to create the item. It shows that the product is natural with 100 % peanuts.

Consumer activism is the activism undertaken on behalf of consumers, to assert consumer rights. Ethical consumerism or ethical consumption or ethical purchasing is a type of consumer activism that is based on the concept of dollar voting. In dollar voting process, the consumers are said to vote for every product they purchase or spend dollars to buy. Products that consumer buy will decide the future production choices . Products that does not sell or does not get vote will recieve fewer production in the future. It is practised through "positive buying" in that ethical products are favoured or "moral boycott" which is negative purchasing or company based purchasing.

Yes, i will partake the resources produced by Good guide and Better world shopper. These sites provide people with comprehensive up to date account of social and envirommental resonsibilities of every company and also providing indiviuals with better products. They cover everything from the human rights, environment, community development and animal protection.

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