Promote Fair Trade
Why Do You Support This Change?
iFair trade promotes independence
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Jennifer S.
Jun 26
We all want to be paid fairly for our jobs. Fair trade and fair wages builds independence from the bottom up. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for life!
Fair Trade
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Kayla W.
Apr 21
I love to drink coffee, and I didn't realize until recently how terribly the coffee farmers are treated. It is not right. Think about how many people go to Starbucks every day, now think about how much coffee has to be mass-produced. If you go to a coffee shop, ask if they have Fair Trade!!!
Work with the system
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Michela C.
Apr 06
I believe Fair Trade is a tool to create positive social change because it works with the market system, not against it. It has potential for real growth and when supply chains for all industries are becoming more and more risky, fair trade supply chains offer sustainability for communities and for the environment.
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End the Oppression and Exploitation
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Peter S.
Jan 19
In today's world, globalization has become a new imperialism with the moguls of capitalism replacing kings of old. It's time to demand fair trade, not free trade, and it's time to end the oppression and exploitation.
It's essential
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Olivia R.
Jan 17
It seems it's not enough just to send food, supplies, and money to third world countries. An economy is important, and must be sustainable: they need employment, purpose, and hope for a better future. They have been exploited by us for far too long!
Equality
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Lauren S.
Jan 09
Just because a company is trying to make the largest profit on their products and services does not mean that they have to completely exploit human beings trying to make a living. I understand that proportionally the cost of living is lower, but there is a standard of life that must be upheld and free market systems do NOT always promote this.
You may think that slavery's gone...it's not
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Jillian S.
Oct 26, 2007
In the free trade system, workers are exploited and paid either very little or nothing at all, in some cases they are even whipped. I was told in the case of chocolate by this speaker at my old high school that regular companies don't pay chocolate farm owners less than the amount of money it takes to produce the chocolate. They therefore do not have enough money to pay the farmers, so they do not pay them and they whip them so that chocolate is made. This happens in 40% of conventionally produced chocolate. In Fair Trade chocolate, cocoa is produced at cooperatives. In these cooperatives, workers are paid fair wages and are not whipped. Doesn't this seem like a better alternative? So you shell out a couple extra bucks for a chocolate bar...are you willing to think of the price that is paid so that you can eat it? Also, quite a few fair trade chocolate bars are organic so they are free of pesticides as well.
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