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...forum planned to host a number of speakers, including several village chiefs and farmers?? rights representatives, who were to share their stories...
...they get coffee that tastes the same, but the purchase comes with the “attribute” that the coffee beans were farmed in a conscientious way. One could hardly be so callous as to describe this choice as “throwing money at poor coffee farmers?? or to characterize Fair Trade certification as a “subsidy”. Similarly, when we purchase TRCs, we get the same electricity, but now it comes with the attribute of having been produced in an environmentally-conscientious...
...impressive, some of its means are troublesome. Getting naked in the Square and dressing Playboy models in lettuce bikinis in a campaign promoting vegetarianism is distasteful at best. But by selling its cause with sex, PETA isn’t recreating the wheel. Like Budweiser, Versace and U.S. dairy farmers??whose “Got Milk” ads feature scantily clad female celebrities—PETA is capitalizing on a culture numb to almost everything except sex. In defense of her participation in last week’s love-in, PETA campaign coordinator Brandi R. Valladolid explains...
...Farmers?? employment of child slaves and family labor is a response to artificially low cocoa prices—production costs have to be cut or their farms won’t be able to compete. Recent market deregulation in West Africa abolished fixed cocoa prices that once protected the region’s farmers. Now, the price is determined on world commodity markets. Small farmers, who produce the bulk of the world’s cocoa, are particularly vulnerable to volatile world prices. The cocoa purchasing system is also skewed in favor of traders and middlemen?...
...cheese and apple butter tart, creamed parsnip soup, grilled beef club sirloin and red wine braised oxtail, and spiced pumpkin pot de creme with homemade maple-walnut semifreddo and cinnamon biscotti. The dinner costs $100 per plate, but the proceeds are being donated to the nonprofit Federation of Massachusetts Farmers?? Markets. EVOO offers a seasonal menu with fall-themed items on other nights as well...