Some interesting facts and questions about fair-trade gourmet coffee:
1. The targeted gourmet coffee farmer who needs a fair trade farm has less than 10 acres that his family runs and works in operation, they live in a Third World country or from far away in the mountains of Central America, a country like Brazil . You will receive about $ .65 cents per pound without fair trade and less than $ 10,000 annually. They desperately need fair trade to get out of their poverty.
2.Without telephones, newspapers, television, telephones, cell phones, and in most cases, running water and electricity – as the farmer is also working on "Fair Trade" in the first place?
3. With no savings, no banks, no loans, no finance and how does this farmer get a certificate to pay the fees to fair trade?
4. How much advertising that fair trade is not outside the U.S.? Zero! If they did, where and which media they would use?
5. Interesting most of the fair-trade coffeeBusinesses in foreign countries are financed by the Americans or large co-ops owned partially owned by Americans.
6. Fair Trade doubles the price of coffee, the farmer receives, but does not alter the workers receive during operation to ensure no more money to work. Therefore, all large farms owned by Americans but are worked by the locals to help the Americans much richer, but nothing for the local coffee workers.
7. Fair Trade is doing nothing, is to ensure the coffee to be abetter, or better – quality, it only ensures that the price is higher.
8. Fair trade is not recognized in China or Russia or Japan or the coffee countries.
9. Fair Trade has helped many Americans feel much better about themselves
10. It has done very little to require farmers who are the most help. Or work
Fair trade has contributed to the price of coffee, he has helped the rich get richer, it has helped some, or some poor farmer or pheasant, ithas done nothing to improve the quality of gourmet coffee, like most of the marketing tricks, it has helped us to think that we pay more money for a better product, but what is worse, it does not help the people we imagine it helps
And what is worse, it is doing nothing to help workers – the people who need them most. Heres a question for you – can be a fair-trade coffee-owners pay a child to fetch $ .10 per day, coffee and even Fair Trade? Fair trade is still no laws to stop built into itFarmers, taking advantage of children?
You do not want to know the answer. Sip that fair trade and keep yourself to feeling good about.
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