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 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.

Ethical Consumer and its associated websites is produced by the Ethical Consumer Research Association ( ECRA ).

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 ( 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

Gazzaniga's publication career includes books for a general audience such as The Social Brain, Mind Matters, Nature's Mind, The Ethical Brain and Who's in Charge ?.

In 1969, The Match !, which bills itself as a " Journal of Ethical Anarchism " began publication by anarchist without adjectives Fred Woodworth and has published continuously since then.

Ethical discipline also provides the mental stability and freedom to embark upon mental cultivation via meditation.

Ethical issues like designed babies and human cloning have also given rise to controversies between and among scientists and bioethicists, especially in the light of past abuses with eugenics ( see reductio ad hitlerum ).

* Institutional Ethics Committee, an ethical committee in clinical trials also known as Institutional Review Board ( IRB ) or Ethical Review Board ( ERB ).

He was also closely involved with the International Humanist and Ethical Union.

Huxley also presided over the founding Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union and served with John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann on the founding advisory board of the First Humanist Society of New York.

Sean attended kindergarten in Tokyo, and was also educated at the exclusive private boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Dalton School.

PETA ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) is also the scene of a running battle with PETCO, a pet food retailer in San Diego, for several years regarding the purported mistreatment of live animals at PETCO stores.

See also Martineau, Types of Ethical Theory ( London, 1902 ); WR Scott, Francis Hutcheson ( Cambridge, 1900 ); Albee, History of English Utilitarianism ( London, 1902 ); T Fowler, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson ( London, 1882 ); J McCosh, Scottish Philosophy ( New York, 1874 ).

In July 2008, a statue of him was erected at Luce Hall at the U. S. Naval Academy ; the hall also houses the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership.

* Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale ( GAS ) in Italy, ( see also, Ethical purchasing groups ),

He is also a patron of Animal Aid and works with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ).

The proportionality of harm versus benefit of medical procedures, as defined by Directives 29 and 33 of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services ( National Conference of Catholic Bishops ), have also been interpreted to support and reject the practice of circumcision.

She credited the Sunday school at the New York Society for Ethical Culture with providing the basis of her education ; she also attended Manhattan's High School of Music and Art.

Ethical subjectivism is also compatible with moral relativism when that is taken to mean the opposite of absolutism, that is, as the claim that moral precepts should be adjusted to circumstances, as in consequentialism.

In 1892, he assisted in the founding of the German Society for Ethical Culture ( GSEC ; ), in which Albert Einstein also participated ).

Ingrid Newkirk ( born June 11, 1949 ) is an English-born British American animal rights activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, which is the world's largest animal rights organization.

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

It also set up together with the GMB union an ethical clothing line called Ethical Threads, which is now a sponsor and shareholder in the football club Reading Town F. C.

Professional ethics are also known as Ethical Business Practices.