Comments on: What’s the Deal with Fair Trade? http://anicecuppa.net/2006/09/30/what_s_the_deal_with_fair_trade/ Get Your Buzz On Here Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: mikenmolly http://anicecuppa.net/2006/09/30/what_s_the_deal_with_fair_trade/#comment-117 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:37:31 +0000 http://anicecuppa.net/2006/09/30/what_s_the_deal_with_fair_trade/#comment-117 Not to be a whole pain in the butt, but (get it, butt and but?) why would we think the small farmer in the rain forest is the "best steward... of the land"? The small farmer is concerned with one thing and one thing alone...survival. Rainforest is notoriously unfertile (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest) and the best way to survive is to grow and then burn a new section to grow next year. Now, I speak only of rainforest farmers and not of all other small farmers, but what make everyone sure they aren't only concerned with living another day? How about we be more concerned with small farmers we actually can visit than this "equitable and fair partnership between consumers in North America and producers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean"? Let's keep those guys in business and then we can worry about the deforesters in Brazil. Just opening a discussion. Not to be a whole pain in the butt, but (get it, butt and but?) why would we think the small farmer in the rain forest is the “best steward… of the land”? The small farmer is concerned with one thing and one thing alone…survival. Rainforest is notoriously unfertile (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest) and the best way to survive is to grow and then burn a new section to grow next year. Now, I speak only of rainforest farmers and not of all other small farmers, but what make everyone sure they aren’t only concerned with living another day? How about we be more concerned with small farmers we actually can visit than this “equitable and fair partnership between consumers in North America and producers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean”? Let’s keep those guys in business and then we can worry about the deforesters in Brazil.

Just opening a discussion.

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