You might not know it from its generally low price tag, but chocolate has a host of production issues, from child labor on cacao farms to issues with deforestation. Chocolate isn’t alone in this ...
Calafi is a freelance writer and author of the book “All Things Coffee” and an upcoming children’s book titled “Hazel and Her Sun.” She lives in Newport Beach. If you’re like most people in this ...
Daniel Jaffee is committed to drinking a more ethical cup of coffee. A devoted imbiber, he not only refuses to patronize Starbucks, but also insists on buying his beans from retailers who exclusively ...
Honest Tea, the nation’s top-selling organic bottled tea company, announced that it will be expanding its Fair Trade Certified™ offerings to include the entire tea portfolio. In conjunction with this ...
SEATTLE,Washington, WASHINGTON, D.C., NEW YORK, New York, and BOSTON, Massachusetts – Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX), the Ford Foundation, Oxfam America and CEPCO (Oaxacan State Coffee ...
With rows filled with groceries and stores lined with promotions for their new sales, we often forget how the products we buy landed on our shelves. A large portion of the products we buy are at the ...
As I have met with fair trade factories and farms internationally, I have often heard, “When the certification auditors come, two-thirds of the workforce runs out the back door." This cheekily ...
For more than a quarter of a century, Paul Rice, founder of Fair Trade USA, and Seth Goldman, co-founder of Honest Tea and CEO of Just Ice Tea, have championed ethical sourcing with a laser focus on ...