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some interesting facts and questions about fair trade gourmet coffee:
/> 1st The targeted gourmet coffee farmers need fair trade takes a farm less than 10 hectares, his family operates and works on the farm, they live in a third world country or the distance to the mountains of central America country like Brazil. They receive about $. 65 cents per pound, but fair trade and make less than $ 10,000 annually. They desperately need fair trade to get out of their poverty.

2nd Without telephones, newspapers, television, telephones, cell phones, and in most cases, running water and electricity – how does this farmer even know about “fair trade” in the first place?

3rd With no savings, no banks, no loans and no finances how this farmer has to pay fees to get fair trade?

4th How much advertising does Fair Trade do out side the U.S.? Zero! If they did there and the media would they use?

5th Interestingly, most Fair Trade Coffee Company in foreign lands owned by Americans or large cooperatives is partly owned and financed by Americans.

6th Fair Trade doubles the price of coffee farmer receives but does nothing to ensure that workers working on the farm may be more money. Of all the large farms owned by Americans but operated by local people to help Americans get much richer but do nothing for the local coffee workers.

7th Fair Trade does not do anything to ensure that the coffee is any better or better quality – it only ensures that the price is higher.

8th Fair trade is not recognized by China or Russia or Japan or any of the coffee countries.

9th Fair trade has helped many Americans feel much better about themselves.

10th It has done very little to help the farmers who need it most.

In conclusion, fair trade means that we Americans are feeling good about ourselves, helps us pay higher prices for inferior coffee, helping large and rich farmers get richer. It does nothing to help the pheasant farmer we dream it helps. And it gives us a false marketing ploy that Fair Trade is actually a better quality coffee i = when in fact it only means that a more expensive gourmet coffee. And it really gives us a false sense of self worth and that we are helping poor farmers when we’re not. It causes us to pay too much for bad coffee, and think about fair trade has nothing to do with “quality” when it is not. It does nothing to help the labor pool inspection working at coffee houses or stop children from working in coffee farms. But it has raised the price of coffee and our consciousness. Only if it could be more sincere, helpful />