I've also heard the same thing about a box of cereal that sells for ~$3.00; contains $0.03 worth of wheat or rice.
--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Next time you take a sip of that delicious coffee, > (the world's second biggest traded commodity after oil) > bear in mind, that for every $3 latte sold, only > 3 cents(!) goes back to the farmer who produced the coffee. > > We in western countries have been exploiting for years, either > knowingly or unknowingly, the coffee producers, through > unfair WTO policies, which ensure that virtual slave > labour is utilised to satisfy the unquenchable > caffeine addiction of consumers in developed countries. > > In Costa Rica, for example, the cost of producing coffee is about > 80 cents per pound. The standard going rate for coffee is only > 60 cents per pound. To earn even a subsistence standard > of living, farmers need to earn $1.20 per pound. Fair > Trade International pays 3000 of the coffee farmers in > Costa Rica, a fair price for their coffee, $1.20 per pound, > but that leaves another 59,000 farmers who are still forced to > exist on unfair returns for their hard labour. > Organisations such as Oxfam, are doing their best to > raise awareness of this issue, and to remedy the situation. > > Sooner or later, our coffee karma will catch up with > us............ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
