Reply To: Fair Trade

“Many workers producing some of the staples of the Western diet — coffee, tea, chocolate and bananas (the main fair trade products) — are desperate and have no other options, so they will work all day for just enough wages to survive. As long as the workers do their job and don’t die, the corporations selling these staples profit. Since they can pay them so little, they do, because that makes them a larger profit….I would say it is not required, but it is praiseworthy and an act of chesed to buy fair trade.”

I completely agree.