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Favorite brand of coffee?
In article >,
wrote:
> In rec.food.cooking, Miche > wrote:
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> > > But the wanky coffee yields a better price to the farmer than Fairtrade.
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> > But it's priced so that I can't afford to buy it.
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> If you buy Fairtrade coffee, you pay at least as much, and likely more,
> than non- Fairtrade coffees which yield more for the farmers. I am not
> opposed to Fairtrade. Some other people are, because it does not pay the
> farmers as much as they would get by improving quality.
They're free to grow what they want and sell it on the open market,
though, right? If they think Fairtrade _isn't_ giving them a fair price
for their produce.
And one thing Fairtrade does is give them a guaranteed minimum price.
> Generally, it is
> used as a marketing thing. Dunkin Donuts, for example, is selling
> Fairtrade coffee. By doing so, they pay less per pound than they would if
> they were to buy true specialty coffee, and give the impression that they
> are helping farmers. Indeed, they are helping farmers, and the coffee
> they get is better than average. but alternatives exist which help the
> farmers more, and provide better coffee (and a better value) to consumers.
>
> If helping coffee farmers is something you feel strongly about, another
> excellent organization is CoffeeKids.
URL?
> But anytime you buy specialty coffee, Fairtrade or not, you help farmers,
> and anytime you buy supermarket-type canned coffee, you hurt farmers.
Yes.
Miche
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