Pip Has come home with some Homework tonight relating to Fairtrade. She has designed a questionnaire for us to fill in to gather how much information we know about Fairtrade and What It means, which ties in nicely with an interview I heard on Radio 5 last night on 'Up All Night'. A BBC Journalist called Humphrey Hawksley has written a book to challenge our ideas of the free world and democracy, and he has cited the relationships the Chocolate Companies have with their buyers and producers, and he quoted examples of Young Children of the Ivory Coast still being sold into slavery for the Cocoa growers to achieve cheap labour, Although one Producer who has been growing Cocoa for thirty years , when asked about his price per bag of beans back in 1979 was 60 cents......and his price in 2009 ?.....60 cents. In the time our prices and inflation have gone up fourfold, his market price has stayed the same...
So Perhaps a lesson for us here is to buy A bar of Fairtrade Chocolate from the Coop next time !
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