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Fair Trade Facts
In Canada, you’ll find the Transfair label
on select brands of coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, bananas, and
sports balls. Soon you’ll find in on other products such as fruit
juices and rice.
The FLO label is used in Europe to certify that products are
fairly traded.
Buying Fair Trade Certified products helps to make the
world a better place by paying farmers and workers in developing countries
a fair price
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Tea
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Unlike coffee, most tea is sold at auctions. The Fair Trade Labelling Organisation (FLO) calculates its Fair Trade
prices by adding $0.75 per kg to world auction prices.
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Tea Co-ops use Fair Trade Premiums to hire teachers and create local loan funds.
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Sugar
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According to Oxfam's report, British Sugar's majority shareholders, the Weston Family, receive £27,000 a day from their British Sugar shares alone,
while a sugar cane cutter in Ethiopia earns only £1 a day.
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Cocoa
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Amid reports of child slavery on African cocoa farms Fair Trade chocolate and cocoa ensures the co-ops ban underage and forced labour.
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Bananas
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Fair Trade bananas are beginning to surface in Europe and North
America. Farms pay workers a living wage and allow unions.
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Soccer Balls
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Soccer does not mean playtime for thousands of children in Pakistan and India who are involved in the production of soccer balls.
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They earn much less than the legal minimum wage and are subject to abuse. But we can put a stop to this.
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Fair trade soccer balls come from manufactures that commit and respect the ban on child-labour.
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Coffee
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The $3 many Canadians shell out everyday for a latte at Starbucks is equivalent to the daily wage of a Central American coffee picker.
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North American consumers pay $4 to $11 a pound for coffee bought from growers for about 80 cents
a pound.Ê Growers who sell to Fair Trade organizations earn $1.12 to $1.26 a pound
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Rice
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US dumping of subsidised rice on Haiti has had
devastating effects on local rice producers, and has gone hand
in hand with rising child malnutrition.
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