Tomato » Fair trade http://www.tomatom.com The insiders guide to restaurants, food and drink in Melbourne. Fri, 09 May 2008 03:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Coffee: If it doesn’t have the label it ain’t Fairtrade. http://www.tomatom.com/2005/09/coffee-if-it-doesn%e2%80%99t-have-the-label-it-ain%e2%80%99t-fairtrade/ http://www.tomatom.com/2005/09/coffee-if-it-doesn%e2%80%99t-have-the-label-it-ain%e2%80%99t-fairtrade/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:22:35 +0000 Ed http://tomatom.com/?p=100 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Coffee: If it doesn’t have the label it ain’t Fairtrade.", url: "http://www.tomatom.com/2005/09/coffee-if-it-doesn%e2%80%99t-have-the-label-it-ain%e2%80%99t-fairtrade/" });]]> In the early 1990s things got really bad for coffee growers. Market prices rock-bottomed for the bean. It cost more to grow than the market would pay.Growers pulled their children out of school to work, forests were cleared to put in more coffee trees and labourers lost their jobs. That’s where The Fairtrade Foundation, a non-profit organisation set up in 1992 by groups including Oxfam, jumped in.The aim was to ensure that Third World farmers got a fair deal when trading with richer countries. (more…)

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]]> http://www.tomatom.com/2005/09/coffee-if-it-doesn%e2%80%99t-have-the-label-it-ain%e2%80%99t-fairtrade/feed/ Should we be eating this chocolate? http://www.tomatom.com/2005/09/should-we-be-eating-this-chocolate/ http://www.tomatom.com/2005/09/should-we-be-eating-this-chocolate/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:41:53 +0000 Ed http://tomatom.com/?p=75 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Should we be eating this chocolate?", url: "http://www.tomatom.com/2005/09/should-we-be-eating-this-chocolate/" });]]> green.jpgWhat chocolate should we be buying? I tend to go for the 70 per cent cocoa solids stuff. But should feed my conscience as well as my waistline?Earthy types have turned to Fairtrade products, where growers are paid over and above market rates to give them something near a living wage. Tomato uses Jasper Fairtrade coffee. Coffee prices have rocketed recently and Jasper coffee is several magnitudes more expensive than Nescafe. And now pretty much every mainstream coffee company is onto this money spinning Fairtrade idea.Could Fairtrade be the next organic?If you haven’t been paying attention, organics are being hijacked by big global businesses and the money hungry. (more…)

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