Where can you buy fair trade coffee?!
Where can you buy fair trade coffee?
I read an article in a magazine about how farmers don't hardly make a profit from from selling there coffee beans. I had already heard about fair trade chocolate and other products but I feel like I should do somthing since it's a daily thing I spend money on. Does any grocery store sell it like zehrs or sobeys? I was also wondering does anyone know if tim hortons or starbucks coffee uses fair trade at all? I'm not sure what coffee I should drink now or if I should at all.
Answers:
Not sure about SB, but I recently bought fair trade organic coffee beans from my local grocery store.
Read the labels to see if it is listed as fair trade. I am thinking Newman's coffee may be fair trade.
Good for you for thinking about this!
I don't know which stores carry the fair trade coffee. I do know that there is a wonderful web site, theanimalrescuesite.com. This site offers a world of fair trade goods from all over the world, including coffee and natural chocolates. By visiting this particular site, advertisers donate portions of their profits to this charitable organization. So, you can buy a good product that will help the people actually producing it, instead of spending the same money for some corporation to profit off of.
All supermarkets and grocery stores need to support fair trade. Find your nearest supermarket and DEMAND they start selling Fair Trade coffee.
Fair Trade needs people to kick up a stink for it to work. FT products can be purchased online quite easily, but it's the supermarkets who need to be forced into pushing FT products for this scheme to work.
Write, phone or email your supermarket and tell them what they need to hear. It's possible they already stock FT products, but keep them in the special diet section (where the healthy foods are) rather than promoting alongside their own, so you may need to search for them!
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