Our topic last week related to ethical consumerism, and recognizing the ways in which everyday decisions impact not only ourselves, but a global network of others. For my post, I wanted to emphasize the idea of consumerism as a form of political action.
I recently began using this sight called caringconsumer.com, which has compiled lists of corporations that do and do not test on animals. Before this sight, it never really occurred to me that buying lotion or something from Johnson-and Johnson the trusted "family company," make-up from L'oreal, or other everyday brands common in drugstores, could contribute to animal abuse. Personally, whenever I see those commercials (which i'm sure many of you have) on tv depicting those hard to look at photos of animals who have been beaten, neglected, and abused in most every way i think to myself "what kind of messed up people can do this?" and it didn't occur to me until recently, that by being an uninformed consumer i was enabling people to continue this abuse by financially supporting their corporations and cruelty.
I know that many people are busy, and if you don't want to go out and invest a lot of time, you can make a difference just by going to the store and choosing to purchase from companies that are not cruel to animals, and neglecting companies that resist changing their ways... i want to leave off with the notion that just changing a brand could save lives, Ihope this post was informative =)
http://search.caringconsumer.com/
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