Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So, I'm a huge proponent of free trade or fair trade practices, such as fair trade coffee, for example. fair trade is a big part of the organic food movement.
Now, I know a lot of you are saying that I'm confusing free trade and fair trade, but actually, I'm not. I'm sort of using them interchangeably for a specific reason. When the people in charge of the world say free trade, they don't really mean free trade. But when I say it, I really do mean free trade. |
David Steinman
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 Already a significant purchaser of certified organic wheat, rye, and other grasses grown in Utah and other states and countries, Garden of Life's rain forest cacao will be certified by the fair trade Federation (www.fairtradefederation.org) to have been harvested from an area in Ecuador in the Amazon "where there is a lot of poverty and potential for environmental degradation"—but also where there is now fair trade sustainable harvesting of this antioxidant- and polyphenols-rich rain forest treasure. |
| They generate income for thousands of artisans and their families in over forty countries whose work is certified by the fair trade Federation, TransFair, and other certification groups. Global Exchange fair trade Stores feature products from around the world, with fair prices for consumers, and fair prices paid to producers.
Growing at an even faster pace is the Global Exchange Online Store, one of the highest rated stores among all of Yahool's twenty thousand plus stores online. www. globalexchange. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I'm a proponent of fair trade, which is free trade between two countries where the people doing the work can make an honest living. I believe any time you have two populations trading goods and services, even if there's a disparity between the labor costs of one country and another, you can still serve the common interests of both countries by specializing in labor in one case and specializing in consumption in the case of U.S. consumers. You can still serve the common good. So, I'm a huge proponent of free trade or fair trade practices, such as fair trade coffee, for example. |
Mark Schapiro
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 It was "Fair Trade" week in Belgium. Procter & Gamble, like other companies, was participating in a countrywide effort to highlight how trade could be used to raise the living standards of people in developing countries. 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Do you have any fair trade recognition?
Adelman: We're actually going through fair trade certification right now. Our partner company in Peru is led by an agricultural engineer that was trained in England -- he's Peruvian -- and he's become instrumental in going around to these agricultural families in all the different regions of Peru and helping them convert their lands into organic farms so they can produce cacao, maca and other products for us. But, they own their own land, and we pay them a fair wage. |
David Steinman
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| Ecuador in the Amazon "where there is a lot of poverty and potential for environmental degradation"—but also where there is now fair trade sustainable harvesting of this antioxidant- and polyphenols-rich rain forest treasure.
"All of our printing is being done on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper, including our extensive catalogs, and with vegetable inks," adds Horn. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Headed by Joshua Onysko, Pangea goes way beyond the norm in creating eco-conscious, fair trade, health-friendly soaps and personal care products ranging from soap and shower products to skin cleansers, toners and creams. They never contain artificial fragrance chemicals, and 100% of what goes into these products is plant-based, cruelty-free, and honest. No hidden ingredients, no playing games with the labels to trick consumers. Just honest, healthful products.
Pangea understands what it means to be truly dedicated to ethical corporate practices. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We also want to know about your company's policy on fair trade, organic certification, sustainable agriculture, safety testing of ingredients, ethics and philosophy of the company founders, and so on. We want to know, essentially: How are you helping to make the world a better place? Because if you're doing great work in that area, we'll gladly publicize you.
From our point of view, having no financial ties to the companies we cover is a great luxury. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If the FTC believes in fair trade and protecting consumers from monopolistic, predatory pricing practices by greedy U.S. corporations, why isn't the FTC taking a good, hard look at the downright fraudulent pricing practices and monopolistic marketing tactics of drug companies?
You probably already know the answer to that one. Big Pharma is apparently beyond justice in this country. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Was it created with honest labor, under rules such as fair trade?
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David Steinman
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| Global Exchange fair trade Stores feature products from around the world, with fair prices for consumers, and fair prices paid to producers.
Growing at an even faster pace is the Global Exchange Online Store, one of the highest rated stores among all of Yahool's twenty thousand plus stores online. www. globalexchange. org
Linda Loudermilk
If you think eco-fashion is about hippies and Luddites (who originally feared the coming of the power loom in nineteenth-century England) in scratchy hand-woven hemp tunics, think again. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The OCA addresses crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, fair trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics.
Shop Natural www.shopnatural.com
A resource for natural and organic products from nutritional and food products to personal care and pet care.
Tom's of Maine www.tomsofmaine.com
This company offers natural personal care products made without artificial or animal ingredients or chemicals.
Wholesomebabyfood.com www.wholesomebabyfood. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Their coffee is a delicious, mountain grown, fair trade, organic coffee that is roasted to perfection. The whole coffee beans are then proprietarily infused with 4 unique, ancient, renown mushrooms. These mushrooms are Cordyceps Sinensis, Ganoderma Lucidum (Reishi), Agaricus Blazei, and Coriolus Versicolor. Known for their immune building potential, these mushrooms render an even more immediate enjoyment. You may even drink it to relax or before bedtime.
Our Constant Need for Cleansing
The body is continually involved in a process of self-renewal. |
David Steinman
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| I hope that President Oscar Arias Sanchez will resist free trade with America and insist on fair trade with good intentions for both nations. Costa Rica is where I came up with the title of this book. It is a land Tom Newmark fell in love with, Brian Hall fell in love with, I fell in love with, and Herb Lewis and Peter Schulick. Everybody who loves the Earth ought to visit this Eden.
Indeed, according to the World Bank, the benefits to the nation have been enormous. |
| It is offering more and more organically grown and fair trade coffees. Some 61 percent of its 1,544 stores that it operates have recycling programs, which indicates that the company is on the way to its goals but has a way to go in overcoming such hurdles as having shops within larger complexes that do not have optimal recycling practices.18 www.starbucks.com
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And of course, I'm a big proponent of fair trade as it is known in the organic industry.
Here's a wacky idea: When corporations serve their purpose, they should dissolve
What does all this have to do with The Corporation? Well, I'm just trying to point out that I'm not against the idea of a corporation, although this documentary has certainly given me a fantastic education in how these corporations get out of control. |
Alex Steffen
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 According to Anholt, developing-world exporters can take advantage of an unprecedented opportunity to increase the value of their exports, by moving away from the charitable marketing strategies used to create products like fair trade Coffee and banking on the intrinsic value of authenticity. By moving goods out of the
By offering an antibrand alternative. Blackspot, a "logo-free" shoe, illustrates the influence branded footwear has come to have on our culture. |
| Can we turn free trade into fair trade? Can the system of global trade work for the very poor as well as for the very rich? Or does achieving justice and sus-tainability involve turning away from the systems we've used for the past sixty years? If so, what do we turn to? ez
Why China Wins mmm China is rapidly becoming the world's factory. By one measure, China is responsible for 13 percent of global economic output, making its economy twice the size of Japan's, and third only in size to the United States and the European Union. |
| When Africa's leaders say they want fair trade, not more aid, they're talking about cotton: the annual U.S. cotton subsidy is roughly three times greater than the amount the U.S. Agency for International Development gave Africa in aid in 2004. ez
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Global Exchange http://www.globalexchange.org/
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. |
| 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. |
| Others, such as fair trade in Tourism South Africa, monitor social and economic aspects like wages and working conditions. How do we know which standards a particular program gives priority to? Right now, that's still difficult, but the proposed Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council would accredit the certification programs, enabling us to expect the same standards from participating certification programs around the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Now, I know a lot of you are saying that I'm confusing free trade and fair trade, but actually, I'm not. I'm sort of using them interchangeably for a specific reason. When the people in charge of the world say free trade, they don't really mean free trade. But when I say it, I really do mean free trade. |
Alex Steffen
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| Sometimes farmers get so little for their wares—and pay so much for supplies and equipment—they end up empty-handed at the end of the year, despite grueling work. fair trade changes the dynamic of buying and selling in the world market by guaranteeing a fair price to hundreds of thousands of farmers in more than fifty countries.
Fair-trade-certified labels can now be found in dozens of countries. 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. |
Carlo Petrini
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 If the network of gastronomes can respond to these needs and can involve and educate those who practice a new kind of trade (they are, after all, indispensable), its expansion will immediately cross the path of those who are already experimenting with alternative forms of trade (such as fair trade) and other networks which do not yet feel that they are "gastronomic" but which have made important experiments in new forms of commercialization. |
| 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. fair trade must never forget the other two aspects of quality: clean and good. Sometimes it does, and this is the worst advertisement it could give itself in its struggle to rectify the unfair conventions of the market. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Treating the resultant diabetes could be considered a fair trade for being alive.
It is not always possible to predict whether a medication will cause hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) in a particular patient. People vary enormously in susceptibility to this effect; some people react strongly to a diuretic, for example, while many others are unaffected. Although a very small proportion of women on oral contraceptives may experience this problem, so many women use them that it may add up to quite a few people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Adelman: We're actually going through fair trade certification right now. Our partner company in Peru is led by an agricultural engineer that was trained in England -- he's Peruvian -- and he's become instrumental in going around to these agricultural families in all the different regions of Peru and helping them convert their lands into organic farms so they can produce cacao, maca and other products for us. But, they own their own land, and we pay them a fair wage. Some companies will go in there and buy the land from people and then control the people more. |
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