Comment on 'Not sustainable': The heavy price your 6c tea bag is exacting on others
mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
The article repeatedly lumps Rainforest Alliance and Fair Trade together, but they are not the same at all, and I didn’t see any examples of inspection failures for Fair Trade.
To be certified for Fair Trade, the producers must be a cooperative. That is relatively easy to check and it means that there is no-one to impose harsh conditions on the workers.
mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Having checked, it seems that the Fairtrade standards now allow producers that are not cooperatives.