The following post was written by Dary Goodrich, Chocolate Products Manager For years at Equal Exchange we’ve been trying to call attention to the problem of forced child labor in the chocolate industry (see “Modern Slavery on Cocoa Farms” Equal Exchange 2006 Annual Report, “Reverse Trick-or-Treating” Equal Exchange 2007 Annual Report, “V-Days Dark Side” [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Profiting from Child Trafficking
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child slavery, child trafficking, Fair Trade chocolate on August 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“A Different Kind of Fair Trade.”
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »
If you live in the Northeast you know that we’ve had about eight sunny days this summer. Friday was one of them, so I decided to take the day off to go hiking in the White Mountains. The day was beautiful, the views from the top of Mt. Osceola were stunningly clear, and the breeze [...]
An example of corporate social responsibility? NOT.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiquita Brands, DOLE on August 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Did anyone see 60 Minutes last night? They re-aired their piece, The Price of Bananas, about how Chiquita Brands paid $12 million in “protection” money over a period of seven years to the paramilitary group, the AUC, in Colombia. The AUC were responsible for thousands of civilian deaths in the region where Chiquita was running [...]
What’s NAFTA got to do with it?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CIRSA, NAFTA on August 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In January 2008, I took a group of Equal Exchange staff to Chiapas, Mexico to learn about some of the current realities that indigenous rural communities there are facing and to visit with one of our small farmer coffee co-operative partners, CIRSA. Mike Mowry, Quality Control Technician, was one of the participants on that trip. The following [...]
House Passes Food Safety Bill; Next Step is the Senate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Food Safety Enhancement Act on August 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Many thanks to all of you who took the time to write or call your Congressional representatives last week to express concern about the adverse impact that the Food Safety Enhancement Bill of 2009 H.R. 2749 would have on small scale farmers. While the bill moves us in the right direction, it does place a [...]
Latina Worker
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Latina Worker by Doren Robbins Then I notice through a triple-Americano-awakening moment, in the mall food court, a young Latina cleaning around by the chrome rail at Sbarro Pizza. Maybe a Guatemalan, possibly Salvadoran or Honduran— could’ve been Argentinean or Colombian, Chilean, Bolivian, Panamanian—good chance a Peruvian, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Mayan, Toltec, Sephardic, Huichol coffee [...]
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