May is Fair Trade Month!
My local healthfood store has a sign up reminding patrons that it’s Fair Trade Month. More specifically, this Saturday, May 9, is World Fair Trade Day.
So I ask my readers - do you pay attention to fair trade labels?
Which products do you buy fair trade? Why?
For us, I buy bananas, cocoa/chocolate, and sugar exclusively fair trade because they’re all cash crops that ensure that developing countries stay just that - developing. Each of these products use up the resources of the country to provide for our western way of life while those resources could easily be used to provide nutritious food for the inhabitants. Sadly, our trade system has exploited developing countries to the point that they rely basically on the cash derived from selling all their resources to developed countries and have to import most of their food. If I drank coffee, that would be another one on my list.
(p.s. Does anyone else think the words ‘fair’ and ‘trade’ look funny when you’ve read them that many times?)
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