The Only Fair Choice: Support FREE Trade
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Some of the conclusions from the article UNFAIR TRADE, by the Adam Smith Institute:
1. The Fairtrade certification system and the Fair Trade movement from which it springs are fundamentally unfair. They offer a small improvement in prices to very few primary producers, while leaving most out in the cold and possibly even worse off than before. Of the farmers Fairtrade helps, many live in Mexico, a relatively wealthy and well-developed country. Fairtrade does little for the poorest of the poor in the agricultural sector, the landless laborers who are refused permanent employment under Fairtrade rules.
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