Fair Trade - The Story

Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace.

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[Fabiola Romero Pereira]

Para Fair trade no existimos los ispanos parlantes.

[KafeMandela]

There's always a reason not to do something, but there are always more reasons to take the first step! Unless you try, you won't ever know if you failed, if you fail, the next person may have the answer to do it better & right! Helping others is not an option, it is an obligation! How you spend your money, impacts the lives of others!

[JTEchicago]

If you give me the statistics and followed the prices... I will then believe fair trade is actually helping. But instead, when I try to find statistics, all I hear is, farmers "could be making" or farmers "are much better off." Studying Economics... you now know that you are actually making a subsidy, which in turn is raising production. A 1% increase in production of coffee results in a 4% decrease world price. Guess who gets fucked the most... the million other farmers in real poverty nations

[squarecracker]

Ok then, please explain to me exactly what role the Marketing org plays in the value chain. It's total BS, just like RA coffee. They certify that farmers are getting open market value for coffee, which right now is about $2.34 per pound. Retailers in the US and other developed countries who sell by the cup retail coffee for in excess of $100 per pound, and these fuckers act like that is equality? The guys who run the org live well, farmers are still getting fucked.

[squarecracker]

Fair trade is a bullshit marketing organization. Do the guys who own the marketing org have day jobs? How do they pay their bills? They skim off the value chain under the guise of helping people. These guys all have cars and nice houses in the first world, while the actual producers get fifteen cent per pound per year bonus. Total bs to make Americans feel like they aren't destroying the world on mindless consumption.