Transfair USA | Fair Trade News (#)
„"Many specialty coffee drinkers are associating the producer and his or her welfare with good coffee. When you look at the extensive activism and education [surrounding] fair trade that's [occurring] on campuses nationwide, you can see that the next generation of customers for the specialty industry is going to be even more educated, more interested and more supportive of fair-trade than the current one-which is saying a lot," says Rodney North, head of public relations for Equal Exchange.“
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Transfair USA | Press Releases
„Fair Trade Certified Coffee, currently sourced from 22 different countries, means quality--for coffee drinkers, farmers and the environment. "It is only fair that the farmers that grow the beans that supply the world's booming coffee market be able to share in the profits they've rightly earned," Stark said. "Its an atrocity that so many small farmers are being ripped off by corrupt coffee brokers and forced to live in poverty." Evidence of the urgency of the current crisis in coffee growing communities was expressed in a recent Wall Street Journal story dated July 8, 2002: "In lush coffee-growing regions from Central America to Africa, the collapse of world coffee prices is contributing to societal meltdowns affecting an estimated 125 million people, [resulting in] a combustible brew of unemployment, hunger and migration. Whole rural communities are disappearing." Stark's Resolution states, "In the context of the global economy, consumer choices affect communities and the environment throughout the world." Based on the 2001 National Coffee Association study, American coffee drinkers have the largest opportunity to effect these changes.“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„Free-market advocates disagree. They don't believe the artificial prices set on Fair Trade coffee will dramatically reshape the industry and buying habits of most coffee drinkers.“
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Tea & Coffee 08/02 - Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Certified Tea in the U.S.
„To find out more about Fair Trade tea, call TransFair USA at (1)(510) 663-5260 or e-mail info@transfairusa.org .“
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Global Exchange : 100% Fair Trade Companies
„Listings including non-100% companies, manufacturers, importers, and processors: TransFairUSA. Retailer listings: TransFair USA, Fair Trade Federation. Order on-linefrom company web sites or“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„According to British newspapers, every day Brits drink 1.7 million cups of fair-trade tea, coffee and cocoa every week, and they eat 1.5 million fair-trade bananas. In addition, fair-trade chocolate increasingly is stocked in school vending machines, and whole communities have designated themselves fair-trade towns.“
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