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What is your favorite fair trade food?


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Initial post: 23 Aug 2010 17:57:22 BDT
S. Li says:
bananas, cocoa, coffee, fresh fruit, honey, juices, rice, sugar, tea, tropical fruit, wines
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 19:10:42 BDT
gille liath says:
Currants. Sorry, thought you asked what was my current favourite fair-trade food.
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 19:37:08 BDT
gille liath says:
It's an odd question, but the serious answer would be Green & Blacks chocolate.
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 19:39:02 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
does this sound mildly familier? i will not say chocolate! i will say coffee & honey.....in my most serious voice.
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 19:40:21 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
HA...Yes!!!!! i agree compleatly gillie of course.
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In reply to an earlier post on 23 Aug 2010 19:51:54 BDT
gille liath says:
...coated currants. ;)
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 20:29:11 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
Oooo....not this again!! go on then just because you suggested it,i dont want to be rude you know!
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 21:08:20 BDT
monica says:
M. de Maldoror brand truffles. The pigs are given 15% of every ten francs profit.
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 21:18:15 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
i hope they spend the money wisely!
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In reply to an earlier post on 23 Aug 2010 21:22:04 BDT
monica says:
I've been told that they spend it on truffles that they actually get to eat. The swine.
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 21:25:08 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
well at least they dont spend it down the pub!! hey..has to be a few perks to the job!
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In reply to an earlier post on 23 Aug 2010 21:37:15 BDT
monica says:
Yeah, but on second thought I wonder how fair-trade M de M really is: Flies can lead to truffles too, and the company publicity doesn't mention francs for flies. . .
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 21:41:48 BDT
monica says:
Jane Austen, I realised too late that I might have put you in an awkward position by suggesting you take the trouble to check library records (for another thread). Sorry. I type these damn things off the top of my head and probably shouldn't. Cheers.
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 21:45:22 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
haha....now that would be tricky trying to pay a fly! how fair-trade is anything ? we buy them on good faith hoping that it will help someone but we dont know for sure do we?
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In reply to an earlier post on 23 Aug 2010 21:46:53 BDT
gille liath says:
I think you mean a few porks...
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 21:48:21 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
No dont be silly i want to find out now! but you know they might not have it seeing as it is so old ( for a library), we dont have records that go back that far either because of moving but i would like to try.
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 21:56:13 BDT
monica says:
gille liath, that would have ranked as execrable pun of my day were 'pork' not a US slang term (v). That makes it worst pun of the week.

Jane A., that's a good point. Who determines what can be labelled 'fair trade'? Is it a committee of interested parties or one of people who have knowledge of credible statistics on where the money's going?
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Posted on 23 Aug 2010 22:01:32 BDT
Jane Austen. says:
To be honest i dont know the process but i like to think im helping to send children to school or feed a family.Its a shame that all food and drink cant be fair-trade in the first place,i would not mind paying a little extra .
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In reply to an earlier post on 23 Aug 2010 22:02:04 BDT
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gille liath says:
It is an independently-monitored trades description, like Organic. It started out twenty years ago mostly with products sold through Oxfam, but gradually the supermarkets have taken it up. And, porking aside, I think it's very important.

Though WTF it's doing on this forum, I don't know...
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In reply to an earlier post on 23 Aug 2010 22:05:24 BDT
monica says:
What are the criteria?
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In reply to an earlier post on 23 Aug 2010 22:08:23 BDT
gille liath says:
The growers get a premium on the current market price, which is guaranteed to them for several years ahead - so they're not at the mercy of market fluctuations which, otherwise, can plunge them into poverty without warning.
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In reply to an earlier post on 24 Aug 2010 11:00:51 BDT
Mr. Liam Knowles says:
ye i totally agree
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In reply to an earlier post on 27 Aug 2010 21:34:58 BDT
Mrs. Diane Bate says:
Chocolate of course!
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