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> improve Fair Trade on the consumer or producer side? If you live in the UK, a simple no-effort thing you can do is buy fairtrade food and drink at the superm
by cirrus-clouds 9y ago
> improve Fair Trade on the consumer or producer side?
If you live in the UK, a simple no-effort thing you can do is buy fairtrade food and drink at the supermarket. These goods have the Fairtrade foundation logo (http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/).
Some of the cheaper supermarkets (e.g. Lidl, Aldi) tend to have the least number of fairtrade goods. But other supermarkets have a much wider range of fairtrade items and source fairtrade goods for their own label brands.
Sometimes, the fairtrade price of a good is only a little more expensive than items without the fairtrade logo (e.g. bananas).
The fairtrade scheme has faced criticism but I still think it's worthwhile supporting the scheme by choosing fairtrade goods when you can.