Fair Trade 101

Starting in 2009, I've switched from buying my usual Millstone Breakfast Blend Coffee to Wild Harvest Organic and Fair Trade Breakfast Blend. The Wild Harvest is $1.00 cheaper than the Millstone.

Here's info on what Fair Trade means (from Wikipedia):
Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach to empowering developing country producers and promoting sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a fair price as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit and flowers.


From the Wild Harvest website:
why we only select fair trade certified coffees
* Better for you
* Better for the environment
* Better for our fellow man

Wild Harvest coffee beans are grown free of chemicals under the natural forest canopy, and benefit from a natural processing system practiced for centuries. When you drink it, you know you're making life better for farming families around the world.