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EDITORIAL | What's so hard about being fair?
Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: News
The coffee blends only need to have 30 percent of the Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee to be considered a certified blend. Jazzman's currently only serves one blend that is 100 percent certified coffee. This is good, but Cabrini can certainly do better.
Five minutes down the road is a university making huge strides towards the cause. Villanova University's dining service serves fair trade coffee in every dining location. Along with coffee, Fair Trade chocolate is also sold on campus. When it is available, their dining services purchases Fair Trade produce and is currently looking into only supplying fair trade rice.
Villanova has shown us that it is possible. Our administration has the power to make the change and the students have the power to influence the administration. Mandating in our contract to Sodexho that we want Fair Trade products in our dining halls is one option. We have the power to affect change and it is our social responsibility to make these choices.
People on campus are finally taking notice, but we can still do more. It can't be the same group of people every time, trying to make a change on campus. The entire Cabrini community needs to come together around this cause. It is something so easy to participate in, if we would all just pay a little bit more attention.
Why do we have to fight so hard for something that is fair? All this time and energy is being put into a campaign for something that we should already be doing in the first place. Paying workers a fair wage for the goods they produce shouldn't be a debatable item, it should be a given.
Five minutes down the road is a university making huge strides towards the cause. Villanova University's dining service serves fair trade coffee in every dining location. Along with coffee, Fair Trade chocolate is also sold on campus. When it is available, their dining services purchases Fair Trade produce and is currently looking into only supplying fair trade rice.
Villanova has shown us that it is possible. Our administration has the power to make the change and the students have the power to influence the administration. Mandating in our contract to Sodexho that we want Fair Trade products in our dining halls is one option. We have the power to affect change and it is our social responsibility to make these choices.
People on campus are finally taking notice, but we can still do more. It can't be the same group of people every time, trying to make a change on campus. The entire Cabrini community needs to come together around this cause. It is something so easy to participate in, if we would all just pay a little bit more attention.
Why do we have to fight so hard for something that is fair? All this time and energy is being put into a campaign for something that we should already be doing in the first place. Paying workers a fair wage for the goods they produce shouldn't be a debatable item, it should be a given.
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Bodybuilding Forum
posted 1/07/09 @ 2:31 PM EST
Great article. I agree totally.
Muscle Forum
posted 1/07/09 @ 2:35 PM EST
We need fair trade not because of the reasons you stated, but because the value of the u.s dollar is getting killed as a result of these trade deficits. (Continued…)
Kevin
posted 1/08/09 @ 7:57 PM EST
The problem is that poor farmers are not very productive, and so they have wages that reflect that productivity. If you were to introduce an arbitrary "fair" wage in these countries you would cause massive unemployment. (Continued…)
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