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Fair Trade Circle

Posted by Chris Case | May 14, 2008 .

With a constant desire to reflect social justice with the way I live my life, questions like who makes my clothes and who is profiting off the money I spend are definitely struggles.  Its easy to forget that often the clothes I buy were likely made through a process of oppression, like a recent songwriter put there there is, ” Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes.”  Well, Fair Trade coffee constantly comes up as part of that conversation.  The folks over at The Briefing’s blog wrote an article about Fair Trade, mostly criticizing the economic policies of fair trade, but the discussion that follows so far has been really interesting.

I have promoted Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee on the blog before, and I still wholeheartedly endorse them because they are not part of the economic cycle that Tony Payne discusses since it is simply a way of connecting smaller growers with the larger economy, not price fixing.  I encourage you to get involved in purchasing and supporting businesses like that.

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