Hi,
May be for coffee, bananas and so on the Fair Trade works but as
concerns tea, whenever I gave a try, I found myself drinking poor
stuff which I had paid more than correcly. You might think I'm stupid
but I do believe it's not fair.

Karel


On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:53:12 -0500, Joe Doe >
wrote:

>I am providing a link to a series of pictures of workers in Indian tea
>gardens.
>
>While we enjoy our tea and concentrate on flavor and other nuances we
>are largely oblivious to the plight of the tea producers.
>
>See:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...uth_asia_india
>_tea_workers/html/1.stm
>
>
>While tea snobs can certainly not solve all the problems of the Tea
>Industry perhaps purchasing fair trade teas may be one small step
>towards helping them.
>
>Roland