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You, Dear [[consumer]], have to be provided with more [[Features|information about products]] and how all these things your local [[w:List of supermarkets|supermarket]] is full of got there, straight in front of your nose, packaged into coloured boxes and bags, one more tempting than the other.
You, Dear [[consumer]], have to be provided with more [[Features|information]] about [[product]]s and how all these things your local [[w:List of supermarkets|supermarket]] is full of got there, straight in front of your nose, packaged into coloured boxes and bags, one more tempting than the other.


Information about the products' [[Features|environmental impact]], workers' conditions, the producer's [[Features|social conscience]] - or lack thereof, all this has to be available at your fingertips. [[Features|Which company]] made the product you are considering to buy, and [[Features|who owns the company]]?
Information about the [[product]]s' [[Features#Indicators of Environmental Friendliness|environmental impact]], [[workers' rights]], the [[producer]]'s [[Features#Indicators of ethical aspects and social responsibility|social conscience]] - or lack thereof, all this has to be available at your fingertips. [[Features|Which company]] made the product you are considering to buy, and [[Features#Raw data|who owns the company]]?


If you don't like the product or the company, don't buy it - but you could send some [[feedback]] to the producer. Tell them why you don't like the company or product, maybe the heap of mails flooding into the PR offices takes some effect. Is there somebody hiding behind the seemingly local and small brand, maybe a multinational giant who exploits workers in poor countries and purchases raw materials from wherever and whoever supplies them at the lowest price, not caring about eg. for the human rights situation in the country they are produced in?
If you don't like the product or the company, don't buy it - but you could send some [[feedback]] to the producer. Tell them why you don't like the company or product, maybe the heap of mails flooding into the PR offices takes some effect. Is there somebody hiding behind the seemingly local and small brand, maybe a multinational giant who exploits workers in poor countries and purchases raw materials from wherever and whoever supplies them at the lowest price, not caring about eg. for the human rights situation in the country they are produced in?


Has somebody [[Campaigns|initiated a boycott]] on the company and if so, who might these people be who dare to uphold that you are a bad consumer, even a bad human being in case you decide to buy this product? Even if you don't deem consumption decisions a serious means of civil activism, you may be interested in what other consumers think about this new washing powder. Have a look on what comments they have published on the product you want to try. Maybe the most essential thing is to find out how to use these expensive sun-dried tomatoes in order to make your food taste better.  
Has somebody [[Boycott|initiated a boycott]] on the company and if so, who might these people be who dare to uphold that you are a bad [[consumer]], even a bad [[body|human being]] in case you decide to buy this product? Even if you don't deem consumption decisions a serious means of civil activism, you may be interested in what [[score|other consumers think]] about this new washing powder. Have a look on what [[comment]]s they have published on the product you want to try. Maybe the most essential thing is to find out how to use these expensive sun-dried [[tomato]]es in order to make your [[Features#Special group: Food stuffs|food taste better]].  


Maybe you would like to watch an short [[Features|employer, employee or labor union testimony video]] on the working conditions of the production site. You wouldn't want to support rampant capitalists exploiting workers ruthlessly, would you?
Maybe you would like to watch an short employer, employee or labor union [[Informational Video|testimony video]] on the [[Workers' rights|working conditions]] of the production site. You wouldn't want to support [[capitalism|rampant capitalists]] exploiting workers ruthlessly, would you?


Think what you think, value what you value, consume how you please, but if you want information to back your consumption decisions, consumerium is being built for you.
''Think what you think, value what you value, consume how you please, but if you want [[Consumerium Services|information to back your consumption decisions]], consumerium is being built for you.''
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