Ethical consumerism - Your money is an agent for change

Everyone lucky enough to live in a democracy is encouraged to cherish their vote.

We are taught to recognise it as our way of influencing events, of having a say in how society is run, of how justice is administered and how social equality is advanced and protected.

Some of us were taught on our mother’s knee that our vote was the way to exercise power and demand accountability. That some of our mothers, some of our grandmothers certainly, could not vote made that lesson all the more compelling.