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Fairtrade And Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Many people these days are concerned about GM foods and want to know how these are related to Fairtrade. One of the Fairtrade’s standards bans the use of GM seeds and requests that a careful eye is kept on surrounding fields to minimise or remove the risk of contamination. However, this is impossible to for [...]

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Is Fair Trade Fair?

Whilst most people will agree that, in principle, Fair Trade is a good idea, there are lots of doubts and questions about it. After all, if we pay more for a product because of its label we want to be sure that the money is going where we think it is going. All Fairtrade products have [...]

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Buying Fairtrade vs Buying Local

Some people are concerned as to whether we should buy local rather than buy Fairtrade. Whilst buying local is generally a good idea because it reduces food miles and so on, some products, such as coffee and oranges cannot be grown locally. These are the products that should be bought fairtrade. Foods like apples and [...]

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Wales has Become the First Fair Trade Nation

Wales has recently become the world’s first Fair Trade Nation after considerable progress made by the Wales Fair Trade Forum over the last two years. In order to celebrate this a flag was presented at the Fair Trade Conference in Newport on the 7th June and this flag will visit every county in Wales and [...]

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Reusable Sanitary Protection

Have you ever considered how much paper and money goes into the supply of sanitary towels and tampons for a woman’s lifetime. Apparently, here in the UK, the average woman will spend £90 a year on sanitary products. These days there are few more environmentally friendly options. I have friends who swear by the mooncup. The [...]

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Squashed Up Eggs

My young daughter was furious when she saw that I had a box of eggs that didn’t say free range on them (they were actually free range eggs, just in an ordinary box). However, unable to remember the term ‘battery hens’, she came into me saying “What have you got those squashed up eggs for?“

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