How can that be surprising? Fair trade means the farmers and suppliers have been given a decent price for their goods (their work), regardless of whether this is coffee, salt, sugar, rice or... cola. Large international companies typically have no or little ethics (economic incentives) to treat the environment, farmers, animals etc. properly. It's sort of the backside of the mass-marked capitalistic medal, which usually goes hand in hand with closing the eyes for a vast array of things, which we in the west seems to be particular good at doing.
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:20:59 PM UTC+2, vjosullivan wrote: > > I bought some Ubuntu Cola (http://www.ubuntu-trading.com) from our > staff shop, today. "Great" I thought "free Cola" but when I got to > the counter, not only was it not free but it cost more than the "real > thing"! :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/i9JaBtHAadgJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
