On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:27:29 +0200, Casper Bang <[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
Well, I think that in the west we're particular good at doing. For
instance, about worker exploitation in China's factories, I've never seen
a story that didn't start from west attention, or because a west
manufacturer was involved (e.g. Apple).
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