http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2935 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Wed, 15 May 2013 15:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2935#comment-86966 fair trade coffee Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:17:09 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2935#comment-86966 Sadly, I think the problem with fair trade and shade grown coffee over organic is that people immediately understand what organic coffee is because organic foods are a hot item in this country, while the terms fair trade and shade grown don’t stimulate your average consumer to spend more. Even when they do know what the terms mean, they are more likely to spend the extra money on the organic coffee because they think it will help themselves, rather than spend more on the fair trade and shade grown because they think it will help the farmers.

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