Well, it seems that this is not exactly breaking news, but I can no longer enjoy a guilt free bar of Green & Black’s chocolate either!

Whilst looking at a forum today on the subject of ” boycott Nestle this Easter ” I read that THE BODY SHOP sold itself to L’oreal in 2006 and L’oreal is part owned by NESTLE.

When cross checking this information on other site’s on the net, I came across this report in The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/jun/08/ethicalbusiness.money

and also found that Green & Blacks is owned by Cadbury’s - Schweppes.

It seems to be the case now, that if you want to buy truly ethical products, not only do you have to check the conduct of the immediate company that the product is made from but, also to look deeper into the spiders web of which other companies have any sort of involvement in shares / partnership.

Well, at least I will have a damn good excuse to not attend any future Body Shop parties that I am asked along to in the future.

I thought that Anita Roddick had higher standards.