Categories: random
Tags: shopping, ethics, mooncup
Date: 13 October 2005 10:51:44
In keeping with my chunky-jumper-floaty-skirt-and-Doctor-Martens-wearing mature student status (at least, that's what my work colleague insisted I'd be wearing, along with dyeing my hair pink, filling the house with joss sticks and generally being irritatingly over-earnest and believing I can change the world, as that's what styoodents do) I recently bought the Good Shopping Guide, which is a guide to shopping ethically and covers everything from washing machines to toys. On the whole I find that kind of thing quite inspirational - I like the idea of being subversive in my choices, and that my individual choices could make some kind of difference in changing wider patterns of consumption and all the rest of it.
But I'm not very happy about what it has to say about my favourite chocolate. Sigh.
And I'm still really baulking at the idea of using a mooncup. Not because it's gross per se (though some would say it is), but because I'm so cack-handed disaster would be inevitable.