The deal with 'Max Havelaar' products is you don't have to trouble yourself to
go to special places to get them. They are in your local supermarket,
competing with all the other stuff. And they are growing in popularity. They
started out with just coffee, then thee and chocolate. Now they are slowly
growing into other branches where rich countries are expoiting the poorer
countries.
Sonja
Julia Thompson schreef:
> 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
