If you're unsure, try to at least avoid items that are often unethically sourced.
Coffee, bananas, cocoa, many tropical fruits, wine (mainly from California), clothing items (mainly from China, Bangladesh, and SE Asia) and jewelry are often unethically sourced.
The question today was: 'Who bullies the bullies?' Or, why a minimum of 28 journalists – employed by News International or not — paid a private investigator to illegally and unethically source their stories.
brand while continuing to destroy forests and trade in illegally, unethically or unsustainably sourced timber," Mr. Picken said.
Friends of Earth Netherlands, an environmental group fighting for sustainable sourcing of tin, said they are targeting Microsoft for "refusing to take steps to end irresponsible mining practices on Bangka and Belitung islands". Asus, HTC and Huawei are other brands named by the group using tin sourced unethically.
This means products sourced unethically lose value.
For every person who proudly proclaims that he or she does not know how to cook, there is a person easily persuaded by others that any food is suitable for them, no matter how unhealthy or how unethically or unproductively sourced.
Those efforts can certainly help, but they're inescapably intertwined with political, societal and economic drivers that create openings for unethically-sourced minerals.
By Purkayastha's account, hardly a Tuber melanosporum is safe from being unethically swapped out for the cheaper and much less pungent Tuber indicum; shipping labels from the traditional truffle utopia of Italy may falsely inflate the price of products sourced from the forests of Eastern Europe.
My suspicion was, and remains, that the paper were reluctant to print based solely on the information they had because it had been obtained unethically and perhaps illegally from a source at the hospital.
2 — In the case of, say, a politician or their staff, does not the passing of false information in itself represent a story that should be told in full in the public interest, including naming names? 3 — If the journalist protects a tainted source, isn't he or she acting unethically?
