archive for the 'Fair trade' Category

Animal behavior: Crackdowns on meatpacking workers give new meaning to ‘inhumane’

by Elanor @ Monday, July 14th, 2008.

An editorial in the New York Times shines a spotlight on injustice in the food system, thanks to a report by an interpreter working at the scene of the nation’s largest immigration raid ever. The raid took place in May at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, IA.

Déjà chew: The food price crisis in context

by Guest @ Tuesday, May 20th, 2008.

A look back at past food crises can tell us a lot about the origins of today’s global riots over high food prices — and what we need to avoid them in the future. Guest post by U Tennessee ag economist Daryll Ray.

Finding common grounds: a review of “Black Gold”

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Monday, January 7th, 2008.

I hadn’t given the global coffee trade a whole lot of thought before a DVD of the Oxfam America documentary “Black Gold” crossed my desk. Coffee is the second most actively traded commodity globally, and though there’s a great deal of money involved in the coffee trade, very little of that money ends up in the farmers’ pockets.

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