Ch 6- Your Consumer Responsibilities

Question 1

What is an ethical business?

Answer 1

It behaves in a way that is fair to people and respects the environment

Question 2

What is an ethical shopper?

Answer 2

They prefer to buy ethically produced and distributed goods and avoid unethical goods and companies.

Question 3

What are consumer boycotts?

Answer 3

They occur when consumers avoid buying goods from a particular company as a form of protest..

Question 4

What is meant if a business is said to operate a ‘triple bottom line’?

Answer 4

They aim to make a profit while being fair to people and to protecting the planet.

Question 5

List four areas that can be affected by the choices that consumers make

Answer 5

⇒ Impact of shopping on people
⇒ Impact of shopping on animals
⇒ Impact of shopping on the environment
⇒ Impact of shopping on the economy

Question 6

What is the impact of shopping on people?

Answer 6

⇒Labour exploitation
⇒Nutrition
⇒Toxic Chemicals

Question 7

What is the impact of shopping on animals?

Answer 7

⇒Animal testing
⇒Factory-farming
⇒Habitat loss

Question 8

What is the impact of shopping on the environment?

Answer 8

⇒Climate change

⇒Pollution

Question 9

What is the impact of shopping on the economy?

Answer 9

⇒Globalisation

⇒Genetic engineering