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Hmmm, I've heard that a meditation
technique, I forget what it's called, costs nothing, yet sells for 2,500 bucks
and the teacher only gets 50%.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:53
PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Unfair trade
practices
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............
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