You been doing your bit? Brought a Fair Trade Easter egg of something similar? If not well there’s always next year. I’m proud to say I have. I had a bit of trouble finding anything, in the end I settled for 2 blocks of dark orange chocolate :P Its quite nice, It's Made by Scarborough Fair. Found it in Coles (It’s a supermarket if you’re not Australian).
For those of you wondering what on earth I’m on about. Well Fare Trade is an global social movement that encourages a fair price to be paid for products. It aims to developing countries and ensures that the people producing the product are paid a fair price for their product and are not exploited by large multinational companies for example. It also is promotes sustainable practices, and ensures that workers are paid a proper wage and no child or slave labor is used. This is helping to reduce poverty in developing countries, protect the environment and improve people’s lives.
There are plenty of Fair Trade products now available in our shops. So next Easter, look for one and do your bit to help others :).
And keep in mind this isn’t confined to Easter you can buy fair trade products though out the year. I know there’s a few tea’s on the shelves at my local supermarket along with chocolate. I’m sure if you look around there’s probably more.
For Australians World Vision has produced a good chocolate guide. http://www.brbc.org.au/files/ChocolateGuide.pdf
More information can also be found on these sites:
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