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environmentally conscious consumer

For I while now we have been trying to be ethically and environmentally conscious when  buying stuff. And quite frankly I am starting to get a little !@#)* off. For a number of reasons:

1) the stuff with the words ethical or environmentally friendly written on it costs 3 times the other stuff. Who can afford organic bananas at $15 a kilo when the other stalls in the market have the unorganic versions for $1.99.

You really cant tell me there is that much difference in the amount it costs to make the organic products

2) Organic and ethical chocolate tastes terrible not to mention it is about 6.00 a 250 gram block

3) I have bought the kids shoes, sock and undies that I know are ethically made and they simply dont last as long. Why is it that shoes made in a factory that I imagine has strict quality control fall to to bits after 1 month and those that were likley to be made by a child slave in china last 6 months

I was in Tas recently visiting family and friends an was reading the local paper and I must say it resonated with how I feel. Dont get me wrong I will continue to make decisions about what I buy responsibly but anyway one letter to the author was as follows

    ” I was recently watching the opening of the Olympic games and as I watched thousands of fireworks go off I threw another log on my meager fire and thought bugger my carbon footprint”

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