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We're so ethical you just have to worship us

  • 05-09-2004 11:37pm
    #1
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭


    I've noticed that lots of companies are doing this uber-ethical, we-save-Thai-child-prostitutes-from-lives-of-despair-on-our-lunchbreak marketing thing these days.

    Do I really need to know that my shampooo was made by Gregory who has a passion for exotic butterfllies on the 9th of August? Or that each and every sandwich-maker working for some company is encouraged to find the meaning of life as they grate the cheese? Shouldn't ethics be about more than reading some fluffy platitudes on the labels of your smoothie?

    Will we get a revolt against this stuff and end up with products produced causing maximum pollution and discomfort to workers for people with more sadistic tendencies? (Well, I suppose there's already the main sports gear manufacturers for that). And what's the story with companies who offer a choice between "ethical" products and the same product not labelled as such? Isn't that like admitting that you screw your workers over for the latter?

    Does any one else think this fad is a bit annoying?


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  • #2
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    yes, it gets DAMM annoying....


    shut up, hurry up, and get my coffee, without telling me how your company insists on paying so much to the coffee famers, I DONT CARE!


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Yep the faux tree-hugging PC advertising slant is a pain but I guess a focus group told them this new-age approach works...(yeah right!)

    Mike.


  • #4
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    mike65 wrote:
    Yep the faux tree-hugging PC advertising slant is a pain but I guess a focus group told them this new-age approach works...(yeah right!)

    Mike.

    faux in what way, care to post an advertisement and evidence showing its tree huggieness is fake, or are you just attempting faux hip cynicism :rolleyes:


  • #5
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    I don't like getting told that a company gives lots of money to charity as, as far as I know (as overload) charitable donations are tax deductable. Or am I misunderstanding the implications of this?


  • #6
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    they are in the US, don't think the same applies here, though could be wrong, even so, regardless of the intent, at least the money is going somewhere it's needed


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  • #7
    Tommy Vercetti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭Tommy Vercetti


    Fair trade coffee is piss, I much prefer the slave-made stuff.


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