Re: Transferring Wealth Re: W. on the Environment

[Julia Thompson]

On Sun, 13 May 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:

> Example of the right way: several food products here are sold under
> the "Max Havelaar" label. These products still come from Third World,
> but are not bought from large factories but directly from the
> producers (read:  local farmers) themselves, and at a higher price
> than those producers would get otherwise. This makes "Max Havelaar"
> products a bit more expensive than other brands, but they sell quite
> well.

I like that sort of thing.  I don't know much about getting food products
this way (except for coffee at certain places), but we have a number of
*things* in the house that were made by hand by people who were paid more
directly for their work.  (There's a nice set of wooden salad tongs
knocking around here somewhere, and some magnets on the other side of my
tall filing cabinet, for starters....)  My sister is really big on getting
some of our Christmas presents this way, and knows where to go in DC to
purchase such things.

        Julia