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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
I'll just throw out that we should focus on producing foreign food more ethically. Use it as a platform to raise the global standard of living and workers rights. That's a lot more noble than some efficiency projects that are not affordable for most of the world.
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I'd like to see ALL produce marked fair trade. I can get fair trade bananas and fair trade coffee, but if you are a worker in the fields for any other product, sucks to be you.
What is even harder is getting fair trade bananas that are easily recognized as CERTIFIED fair trade. There really is nothing stopping Dole from stamping "fair trade" on their bananas other than that people would laugh at them (google "dole bananas workers" if you never want to buy Dole bananas ever again).