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For the Fair Trade Fortnight I’ve chosen to write about fair trade textiles as it still seems to be the Cinderella of the fair trade movement.  I did a quick (if not comprehensive!) survey of my friends, they all conscientiously buy fair trade sugar, bananas and tea, but none of them buy fair trade clothes.   Fair trade [...]

In these credit-crunch times ‘not shopping’ is the new retail therapy, especially for bank accounts in need of a break. People are certainly cutting back where they can and this, sadly, means ethical considerations may be sidelined. Supermarkets report a drop in sales of organic vegetables, but food of some kind we need.  Most of us probably [...]