The Ethical Consumer Research Association once recommended that its readers do not buy Colgate because of its use of animal testing, though this is no longer the case.

In July 2007, Lucas came in eighth place in the New Consumer Magazine Top 100 Ethical Heroes list, behind a number of celebrities including fashion designer Katharine Hamnett ( who came 1st ), Anita Roddick ( The Body Shop founder ), Al Gore ( former US Vice-President who is now a campaigner for action on climate change ) and Jonathon Porritt, a former Green Party politician.

The term " ethical consumer ", now used generically, was first popularised by the UK magazine the Ethical Consumer, first published in 1989.

Ethical Consumer magazine's key innovation was to produce ' ratings tables ,' inspired by the criteria-based approach of the then emerging ethical investment movement.

The not-for-profit Ethical Consumer Research Association continues to publish Ethical Consumer magazine and its associated website, which provides free access to ethical ratings tables.

The Center for Consumer Freedom is publisher of the website PetaKillsAnimals. com, which alleges People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals unnecessarily euthanizes animals in its care.

Ethical Consumer is a not-for-profit UK magazine and website, founded in 1989 by Rob Harrison and Jane Turner, which publishes information on the social, ethical and environmental behaviour of companies and issues around trade justice and ethical consumerism.

Ethical Consumer is a subscription publication but also publishes free Buyers ' Guides to consumer products and services through the Ethical Consumer website.

Ethical Consumer is perhaps best known for its company ratings tables which rate products from baked beans to banks across 19 criteria.

Ethical Consumer is widely acknowledged to maintain the most comprehensive English-language list of consumer boycotts in the world.

Lucy Siegle, Ethical Living correspondent to UK Sunday newspaper The Observer, has said that " Ethical Consumer approaches ethical issues with a mind-boggling thoroughness and integrity that makes everyone else look like a charlatan.

Ed Mayo, head of Co-operatives UK, has commented: " Ethical Consumer is a drawing pin strategically placed on the throne of corporate rule.

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Ethical egoism does not, however, require moral agents to harm the interests and well-being of others when making moral deliberation ; e. g. what is in an agent's self-interest may be incidentally detrimental, beneficial, or neutral in its effect on others.

Ethical egoism does not, however, require moral agents to harm the interests and well-being of others when making moral deliberation ; e. g. what is in an agent's self-interest may be incidentally detrimental, beneficial, or neutral in its effect on others.

The Society terms its practice Ethical Culture.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) ( stylized PeTA ) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president.

In 2004, Something for Kate joined People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) in its fight against animal cruelty.

Ethical considerations include the nature of private property in terms of its functions for society and the development of the individual.

A commission set up by the California Science Center in Los Angeles in 2004 confirmed von Hagens ' commitment to ethical practices, and published its Summary of Ethical Review.

" In addition, the term was sometimes used to dismiss a scientific principle considered by the writer to be fanciful, such as in 1855's The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science, which stated that " Milton's conception of inorganic matter left to itself, without an indwelling soul, is not merely more poetical, but more philosophical and just, than the scientific romance, now generally repudiated by all rational inquirers, which represents it as necessarily imbued with the seminal principles of organization and life, and waking up by its own force from eternal quietude to eternal motion.

The National Council of Ethics of Portugal published its Opinion on the Ethical Implications of Cloning in 1997.

As well as its activities in the UK, the NSS has been active in Europe and at the UN, often as a representative for the International Humanist and Ethical Union ( IHEU ).

Ethical socialism was founded in the 1920s by R. H. Tawney, a British Christian socialist, and its ideals were connected to Christian socialist, Fabian, and guild socialist ideals.

A " Management Guide For Real Estate Associations " exists, which is a publication of the International Real Property Foundation ( IRPF ), which was funded by the National Association of Realtors ( NAR ) and the Reaume Foundation. The IRPF, in its Web site, regarding The Caux Round Table ( CRT ) principles, states that: " Ethical perceptions and international business is highly influenced by cultural differences.

On November 20, 2007, the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) published a press release calling on the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to revoke its accreditation of the Buffalo Zoo based on U. S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) reports alleging unsafe animal conditions and nonstandard handling procedures.

Gay Times subsequently selected the Co-operative Bank for its Ethical Corporate Stance Award.

The Guayape River is famous for its placer gold with concessions where today the mining company Eurocantera ( Goldlake Group ) exploits Ethical Gold.

The following month, Putnam received the 2007 Optimas Award for Ethical Practice in recognition of its then-recent efforts to create a more ethical company culture.

The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs states in its ethics code:

Snell also lectured for the British Ethical Society ( eventually becoming President ) and its American counterpart.

The term Tzadik " righteous ", and its associated meanings, developed in Rabbinic thought from its Talmudic contrast with Hasid (" Pious " honorific ), to its exploration in Ethical literature, and its esoteric spiritualisation in Kabbalah.

Ethical monotheism and the associated concept of absolute good and evil emerge in Zoroastrianism and Judaism, later culminating in the doctrines of Christology in early Christianity and later ( by the 7th century ) in the tawhid in Islam.

In the 1930s and 1940s Forster became a successful broadcaster on BBC Radio and a public figure associated with the Union of Ethical Societies.

He founded Enlightenment, an organization associated with the International Humanist and Ethical Union, in 1990.

CCF has campaigned against a number of organizations, such as the Centers for Disease Control, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and maintains several websites devoted to criticizing them.

Ethical egoism ( also called simply egoism ) is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest.

Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest.

Ethical egoism is often used as the philosophical basis for support of right-libertarianism and individualist anarchism.

Failing an answer, it turns out that Ethical Egoism is an arbitrary doctrine, in the same way that racism is arbitrary.

Ethical egoists such as Rand who readily acknowledge the ( conditional ) value of others to an individual, and who readily endorse empathy for others, have argued the exact reverse from Rachels, that it is altruism which discriminates: " If the sensation of eating a cake is a value, then why is it an immoral indulgence in your stomach, but a moral goal for you to achieve in the stomach of others?

Ethical naturalism ( also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism ) is the meta-ethical view which claims that:

Ethical non-naturalism is the meta-ethical view which claims that:

Ethical intuitionists assert that, if we see a good person or a right action, and our faculty of moral intuition is sufficiently developed and unimpaired, we simply intuit that the person is good or that the action is right.

* Ethical egoism, the doctrine that holds that individuals ought to do what is in their self-interest

Ethical Culture is a humanist religion that centers on living an ethical life.

Ethical hedonism is the idea that all people have the right to do everything in their power to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure possible to them.

Ethical hedonism is said to have been started by a student of Socrates, Aristippus of Cyrene.

According to the Five Books of Moses, Abraham is revered as the one who overcame the idol worship of his family and surrounding people by recognizing the Hebrew God and establishing a covenant with him and creating the foundation of what has been called by scholars " Ethical Monotheism ".

Ethical egoism ( also called simply egoism ) is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest.

Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds merely that it is rational to act in one's self-interest.

Ethical egoism is sometimes the philosophical basis for support of libertarianism or individualist anarchism as in Max Stirner, although these can also be based on altruistic motivations.