[Peace-discuss] Fair Trade coffee

[Linda Evans]

I'm with Ken on this one.  I've read and listened to
reports on 'fair trade coffee' that show small
indigenous farmer's hurt by the 'fair trade' label. 
Agriculture and trade between nations is complex and
it would be very simplistic for us to believe that it
can be boiled down to a neat label like 'fair trade'.

Linda (another unpopular person...who has to admit
that she has never liked coffee)
--- Ken Urban <kurban at parkland.edu> wrote:
> I know I'm going to be unpopular to say this, but
> coffee is bad for you
> and the enviornment.  Perhaps if americans didn't
> have such exotic
> tastes, indigenous people would not be displaced for
> coffee plantations.
>  I think the tons of mint growing next to my house
> make a wonderful
> beverage.  
> 
> When there's a cliff, a liberal gives help to the
> people who've fallen
> off it, an activist puts up a fence.
> 
> Ken
> 
> (I envision crazed caffine addicts attacking
> colombia and brazil for
> their coffee, instead of their oil)
> 
> (OK I have a latte once a week or so ... old habits)
> 
> 
> >>> Clint Popetz <clint at ucimc.org> 9/18/2003 9:24:53
> AM >>>
> > <DIV>I am trying to compile a list for the Public
> i of places in
> > town where one +can buy Fair trade coffee
> (including, if possible
> > grocery stores and other +places where it may be
> bought by the bag,
> > but not brewed). </DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>If
> you know of a
> > place, please email me and let me know where it
> is, brewed +or
> > bagged, and if they have decaf.&nbsp; Thanks</DIV>
> 
> Please don't use html in email, if you can avoid it.
>  Those of us with
> text-based readers will often delete such messages
> rather than hurt
> our brains trying to read them.  
> 
> But when it's about COFFEE...:)
> 
> The IDF did a large fair-trade coffee campaign last
> year, and started
> one (somewhat) this year.  You should contact Tina
> Gerdsorf
> (mamateelee at yahoo.com) and Chris Lempa
> (chrislempa at ifairtrade.net) to
> get such a list.
> 
> 				-Clint
> 
> 
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