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NAFTA Completion

Were you celebrating the completion of NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement, on January 1st of this year?  I definitely wasn’t. I have heard about NAFTA here and there but have not known the details and therefore didn’t even know about the completion of the 14 year phase-in process.  Reading in Yes Magazine, I found [...]

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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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Eco-gifting?

At the end of July I often ask myself: is it all worth it? The presents I mean. By the end of the month you name I’ve celebrated it: birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers, wedding showers, retirements, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs…etcetera. And as a college student, or anyone who is low on funds, I wonder was [...]

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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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