Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Since 1999, Trans-Fair USA has been certifying fair-trade products in the United States, and the distinctive logo can be found stamped on everything from bags of tea to bunches of bananas. Most coffee shops that purchase fair-trade beans advertise their responsible practices, so be on the lookout for Java and other products with a clean history, al
Greenwashed Food mmmm As a result of the establishment of organic-certification programs in dozens of countries, food packages are now covered in labels to help consumers choose organic provisions. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  Buy organic, fair-trade, or shade-grown coffee. According to Maria Rodale's excellent Organic Style magazine, clearing land for large conventionally grown coffee plantations ends up destroying wildlife habitat. "Farms with reduced shade in Colombia and Mexico have 97 percent fewer bird species than those with crops under natural tree canopies."50 Audubon Coffee is Audubon-branded and 100 percent organic, shade grown, and habitat friendly. Visit www.auduboncoffeeclub.com. Cafe Canopy at www.shade-coffee. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |  The Swiss-based company is the largest user of organic rose oil in the world, and the company meets its large demand for organic ingredients through fair-trade projects with farmers in several countries. "Originally we started working with 120 farmers who were growing roses conventionally, and we helped buy the equipment and helped to teach them the ways of organic agriculture," Jennifer said. "Now they are producing the rose petals that we need for all of our products. So we benefit, they benefit and it's just a great partnership. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  As we munched on a tasty Caribbean chicken dish featuring "Oxfam raisins" —a fair-trade import by the British charity, Oxfam —Pollet explained that differing standards have long been at the forefront of concerns for a company with the marketing breadth of Procter & Gamble. Most of those, he said, have to do with "measurements, packaging, that kind of thing. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | At least the coffee in the cupboard was fair-trade organic, although the Braun coffeemaker was made of petrochemical plastic, and connected us back to the SCE power grid. The lights were on when I got up. Someone forgot to turn off the porch light last night before going to bed. The television was on in the twins' bedroom, in the ten-yearold's playroom, and in our bedroom as well. Two TVs were tuned to the Cartoon Network, one to Fox News. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | Most coffee shops that purchase fair-trade beans advertise their responsible practices, so be on the lookout for Java and other products with a clean history, al
Greenwashed Food mmmm As a result of the establishment of organic-certification programs in dozens of countries, food packages are now covered in labels to help consumers choose organic provisions. Along with these label initiatives, however, comes the inevitable misappropriation of language by large corporate food companies, which have adopted the word organic for marketing leverage and customer manipulation. | | As quickly as fair-trade labels today have popped up on food products, advertisements flooded the press: "BENJAMIN TRAVERS, Sugar-Refiner, acquaints the Publick that he has now an assortment of Loaves, Lumps, Powder Sugar, and Syrup, ready for sale ... produced by the labour of FREEMEN." Then, as now, the full workings of a globalized economy were largely invisible. The boycott brought these hidden connections to light; poet Robert Southey even labeled tea "the blood-sweetened beverage. | | Global Exchange is one of the most innovative and passionate fair-trade groups around. If you're looking for information on the dark costs of globalization and how we might pursue fairer, more sustainable economies, look no further.
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No substance is more pure than mother's milk, right? Maybe that was true a few centuries ago, but today breast milk usually contains a whole host of toxins, including contaminants found in things like paint thinner, fungicides, and gasoline. |
Carlo Petrini
See book keywords and concepts |  The sun was not yet warm enough when, in the company of my chef friend Alice Waters, I entered an elegantly refurbished area of the docks; pretty little coffee shops were serving warm mugs of excellent organic fair-trade coffee; sumptuous bakeries were putting out all sorts of good things, spreading the fragrant aroma of some wonderful kinds of bread. Oil and wine producers were offering samples in marquees, while hundreds of open-air stalls were selling excellent products: fruit and vegetables, fish, meat, sausages, and even flowers—fresh, healthy-looking food, all carefully marked organic. | | It is not fair that Indian peasants, who find it difficult to produce their own vegetables, should have to cope with unfair competition from subsidized Western products or from surpluses created by market dumping.
The fair-trade market from this point of view is doing a very good job; it has introduced a different approach to the food economy and should therefore be encouraged and respected, though in my view it ought to be combined with structural interventions in the producing communities and not just limited to the fixing of a fair price. | | The network, as such, is proving to be a potentially revolutionary tool to meet all kinds of needs, from the global fair-trade economy to interest groups on sustainable activities or the defense of civil rights.
According to the prevalent theory, the main characteristics of a network system are its openness and its ability to sustain itself (which makes it more democratic and gives the right value to diversity). Moreover, a network is described in terms of its intensity and extent. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | You don't have to give up imported goods to be a responsible eater, but when you do buy them, be sure they are marked Fair Trade.
The fair-trade movement, initiated in the 1980s through collaboration between farmers in developing countries and farmers' rights advocates in Europe, has set the stage for fairtrade-labeling initiatives in twenty countries. Crops such as coffee, chocolate, and bananas traditionally come to us through supply lines riddled with injustice toward workers, contributing to the oppression and poverty of many people in the developing world. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
See book keywords and concepts |  I know one Mexican coopetative in the fair-trade movement created the first public bus line in the region, built the only secondary school, and opened the first community health clinic."
Echoing our feelings, Rosario says, "I had no idea how deep and long-lasting the effects of fair trade would be. What I see is a shift of consciousness in farmers, from being just producers to becoming entrepreneurs who look at every aspect of farming. Before, their only concern was high yields without thinking about the environment. Now farmers know that quality is most important. | | Now, through green and fair-trade labeling, we can use the market to act on our values. We can, as Paul Rice says, "buycott" to protect the environment and ensure that food producers have decent incomes.
All of these developments remind us what is so easy to forget: Economic life is not about our relationships to things—like land or houses or hair dryers. It's about our relationships with each other; what norms and expectations we hold and honor.
What we see today—economic life as a distinct realm governed by the market—emerged in a blink of historical time. | | Through its on-the-ground projects, ForesTrade helps farmers in Guatemala, in Madagascar, in Grenada, and throughout Asia to enter the global fair-trade market. The company also helps farmers shift to organic methods and diversify their crops. The presence of ForesTrade in these communities, Thomas tells us, also often stimulates the kind of competition that Mama Talk-Talk would hate, which ends up increasing prices for farmers.
Baltazar Francisco Miguel—the fellow on the other end of the line—is one of them. | | Organic Consumers Association
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We can choose to support nourishing school food programs and resist commercialization of our schools. | | Paul explained to us the way fair trade works: Importers and roasters pay a fee to a fair-trade certifier—in the U.S. it's his organization—and a premium per pound of coffee, allowing Paul's group to put a fair floor under prices coffee farmers receive—no matter what the zigzag of the world market. Like certifiers in Europe, TransFair USA ensures that coffee with the "Fair Trade Certified" label meets specific criteria—that, for example, the coffee is produced by democratically organized small farmers with full knowledge of market prices. | | Behind me is a glass cabinet full of colorfully wrapped coffee, samplings of the brands carrying the Max Havelaar fair-trade label.
Curious, I start with the puzzle of the name and ask the obvious, "Why Max Havelaar?"
"Our name goes back over a hundred and forty years to Eduard Douwes Dekker," Hans explains, "a colonial official in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. [Ever wonder why we call coffee Java? Java was the center of Dutch coffee growing. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts |  A million dollars put into politics to bring about the passage of a protective tariff law, a so-called fair-trade law, or an anti-quackery law, is a tremendous bargain for those who benefit. Even though these laws are masqueraded as being for the benefit of the people, in reality they are a means of putting the machinery of government into motion against cartel competitors. They produce a return on the original investment many times over. Big government, therefore, with its capacity to regulate every facet of economic life, is the natural friend and ally of cartels and monopolies. |
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