What could be a better blend of fun and fair trade than dripping fair trade chocolate over your partner or doing unspeakable things with bananas. Zazubean and other chocolate companies have gone after this market. Perhaps, fair trade could prevent incidents like this, from Office Space:
After the fold: The flick that will change your life...
Canadians can enjoy delicious, organic, fair trade spices from Sri Lanka, thanks to the efforts of the Small Organic Farmers Association and Sahana, a small Canadian company. Sahana imports Arayuma teas and spices directly from Biofoods / SOFA (Small Organic Farmers Association)
SOFA is an organic
farmer group organized on fair trade principles, located in central Sri Lanka. SOFA was founded in 1997, with 183 farmers, and leadership by
Dr Sarath Ranaweera. SOFA members continue the fair trade struggle for better standards of living, education and health.
Delicious Arayuma teas and spices are available in Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. Learn more about these delicious teas and spices...
Grain prices shoot up as a result of ethanol and biofuels or demand in China or global warming, but the price of food is still cheap relative to other things we take for granted like cell phones, computers and cars, argues Wayne Robertson (Now Magazine).
We can't seem to resist a deal and this leads to bad production choices that literally end up smacking us in the face.
I love Chocolate, especially, when it is free of child labour, fingers, and chemicals [i.e. Fair Trade]. Here is a little (ok a lot of) background information on where chocolate comes from and how it is processed.
After the fold, I have added a video about the reason for going with fair trade chocolate!
Every day should be fair trade day, but from May first to fifteenth Canada highlights the importance of fair trade throuhg tastings, films, meet-ups and lots of fun events. The wide range of events is organized by community members and small business folk who care about the way that the things we eat drink and use are made. Nova Scotia and Quebec are leading the way but there are still some events left in Toronto. Highlights below...
and lots of