Trade Justice

[bronchitikat]

Think Before You Drink

The Take-Away, or even the Drink-In, Coffee Industry is Big Business.  At £2 plus a cup  . . .

So here's part of the flip side - coffee production prices.   Like 33cents per kilo raw coffee.  How long does it take to pick 1 kilo coffee berries?

Hmmm, time to take a flask to work & give the money we save to Oxfam/

Comments

[annelaure]

Over the last couple of years the fair trade business is taking more and more importance over here. It used to be mainly coffe and tree, now it's spreading to all kind of business, which is cool :)

[bronchitikat]

Apparently during Fair Trade Fortnight, mid-March, several people set out to eat/drink/use exclusively Fair Trade products, & managed it. Which is good.

[annelaure]

It is good.. Although my bank account wouldn't survive a whole lifestule based on those, unfortunately.

[papertowlbtrfly]

I'm assuming you've tried a bunch and I'm too poor to buy jolt every day now; what kind is good/non oily?

[bronchitikat]

We find the CafeDirect brand is ok, as are the various Co-op 'own brands' - cos the Co-op uses Fair Trade goods as & where it can in it's own brand stuff. Of course, whether this translates to Toronto is another matter.