Most coffee is grown by small farmers who need to get a decent price for their coffee to ensure a livable wage. You can support fair trade by buying it for yourself and encouraging retailers to sell it. Learn more about fair trade, the coffee campaign and the chocolate campaign at Global Exchange. Then send an email or fax to Starbucks or M&M/Mars to encourage them to buy fair trade products. Global Exchange will even provide a sample letter.
Everything tastes better with fair trade coffee, tea and chocolate. Buy some at Global Exchange. Mmmm, chocolate!
PS: This might be a way to subvert the IMF and World Bank!
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/ and 1-800-TRY-GMCR) also has Fair Trade Coffee for sale.
On a $3.75 cup of coffeehouse coffee, the farmer may only get two cents. It's not enough to live on. OxFam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org/mjones) has info on a campaign to get grocery stores to carry Fair Trade coffee. Check it out.
Over 25 million coffee growers and their families face dire poverty because of the international coffee crisis, because the price of coffee has fallen almost 50 percent and now hovers near a 30-year low. So coffe might be cheaper, but is it really worth the cost?
Hi folks,
Also check out www.nosweatapparel.com. They produce all types of clothing and appareal with union labor. In fact, they are making the only fair-trade, 100% union-made athletic shoe in the world. Check it out! I want the red MoJo's! :)
Global exchange also has clothing, accessories, jewelry, crafts, books, beauty products, and more. Check it out! --Karama
You may also want to check out Peace Coffee. Enjoy!
For more information on Fair Trade coffee in Georgia, read this article in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Enjoy!
You may also want to try Cafe Femenino out of Peru. Thanks for the tip, Linda!
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