Why Buy Fair Trade?
A Word About Sweatshops from OrganicFairTrader.com There’s no “official” definition of a sweatshop. It is agreed that sweatshops include manufacturing environments where workers operate in unsafe or unjust conditions. A sweatshop might use children for labor. A sweatshop may force women to take birth-control pills daily to prevent pregnancy. Sweatshops may be oppressive toward organizers [...]
Why buy fair trade organic coffee? There are many important reasons to buy organic coffee and tea. Organic gardening is less intensive and less expensive and better for the environment. Many people say organic products taste better, or feel better on the skin and this makes sense, for many people are quite sensitive and allergic [...]
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Why Buy Fair Trade and Fairly Traded Goods? Next time you’re Target or WalMart or the Gap, your local university pep store, check the tags for the country of manufacture for the items they’re selling: China, Thailand, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, Vietnam, Mexico and more – many countries notorious for their brutal treatment of workers. Fair [...]