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„CRS Notes: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has established a comprehensive set of standards that must be met by anyone who uses the “organic” label in the United States. USDA standards on food (and coffee) focus on the products used in growing our food and the processes by which our food is handled. According to The Consumers Union Guide to Environmental Labels , USDA organic standards generally prohibit the use of “most synthetic (and petroleum derived) pesticides and fertilizers, and all antibiotics, genetic engineering, irradiation and sewage sludge .“
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„But Fair Trade alone will not resolve the injustices built into the architecture of the global “free trade” economy. Catholics who are truly committed to economic and social justice must work over the long term to advocate for enduring change in the very structure of international trading system.“
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„Because much of the coffee sold in the United States goes to health-food stores, most of the farmers must also guarantee that their crop is raised organically, without chemicals and with sound land-use practices.“
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„In 2003, we drank more than $323 million of Colombian coffee. But while we are paying as much as $12 or more for a bag of conventionally traded Colombian coffee in gourmet coffee shops here in the United States, coffee exporters in Colombia are getting as little as 49 cents per pound—and the farmers who grew the coffee are only getting a fraction of that amount. That means that when we pay $1.50 for a cup of conventionally traded Colombian coffee the farmer who grew it gets less than 1˘!“
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„International trade has ushered us into an era of unprecedented economic interdependence. More than ever before in human history, the choices we make here in the United States about what we eat, drink, wear and buy affect people we may never meet: coffee farmers in Nicaragua, textile workers in Bangladesh, cotton farmers in Burkina Faso, shrimp fishermen in Viet Nam, and countless others.“
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„The CRS Coffee Ladder places coffee roasters in the United States in one of four categories based on the level of their commitment to Fair Trade:“
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