Today, Tom Philpott, writer for Mother Jones, published an article expressing his views of TransFair’s betrayal of small farmers in the Fair Trade system. Read the short article here.
Mother Jones Weighs In on Fair Trade Divisions
November 29, 2011 by Phyllis Robinson
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The Fair Trade movement has caused many consumers to ignore it due to the reasons enumerated in the article. I subscribe to Small Farmers as a result of your article on small farmers growing rooibos in Western Cape, South Africa. I buy rooibos from a company formed that is owned by “small farmers” and it’s been successful in marketing their rooibos crops since 1995. I buy my other ingredients from small farmers in New Mexico. I have the resulting tea beverage product packed at a New Mexico Native American Reservation. So we qualify for all of the “good stuff” by “adding value” at the small producer level, I wouldn’t seek the Fair Trade designation. We have enough just doing the right things.