The discussion is raging on this post about fair trade chocolate and coffee. Keep discussing it on that post, but I just wanted to share an article I saw in the newspaper yesterday (Sun Herald) about the great impact one agreement has had.

I think sometimes the general arguments can overlook some very specific benefits of Fair-Trade. I bought a block of Fair Trade chocolate today, and it said on the back that it had come from that same cooperative.

(Note: I suspect the article was ’suggested’ by certain non-Fair Trade chocolate companies who, noticing the rising awareness of their practices, wanted to create an aura of positivity around chocolate-eating. These companies probably fit into this sentence from that article: “The other cocoa companies don’t pay bonuses so the farmers’ kids don’t have money to buy food or pay school fees.”)

Keep discussing!