Aliens are flummoxed by our ethical shopping habits

Added: (Thu Nov 13 2008)

Pressbox (Press Release) - WORLDbytes the online magazine programme created by the feisty WORLDwrite crew launches its latest show on Friday 14th November and its alien reporters are bemused.

Reporting on the humanoid ethical shopping phenomenon that makes us especially happy and smug, alien correspondent Asbo goes out on the streets to find out more. Zlog, in the comfort of the spaceship, chews over why humanoids like to shop ethically and notices that:

“The coffee bean is one of the products they call fair trade. It is unclear why they call this coffee fair as the humanoids in the hot areas growing the beans are not fair and are banned from visiting the England islands.”

Asbo takes samples on the ground, is physically sick over a fair trade cappuccino, shop lifts ethical body products for testing and assumes these scrubs and creams are chemical mating aids.

Asbo and Zlog also check out goats, discover they smell and presume this may be why they are given as gifts to the poor in the developing world.

To tune in and find out more visit the press room at http://www.worldbytes.org/pressroom

WORLDbytes aims to get behind the headlines and promote a people-first perspective on a wide-range of issues; the programme’s credo is “don’t shout at the telly, change the message on it”.

The WORLDbytes online channel is available at www.worldbytes.org

For more information, photographs and interviews with Zlog and Asbo contact:

Viv Regan
Email: vivregan@btconnect.com
Tel: +44 (0)7939 449 604 or +44 (0)208 985 5435
or
Ceri Dingle
Email: ceridingle@btconnect.com
Tel: +44 (0)7866 806 918 or +44 (0)208 985 5435