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ETHICAL EATING

“You don’t need to change your life that much to reduce your impact on the environment and contribute to a better future for people across the world.”

Fair trade’s focus is the welfare of farmers and workers in developing countries and it aims to improve their working conditions and wages. These people are some of the planet’s most marginalised and disadvantaged. Locally, we can have a positive impact on their lives through the products we buy. Fair trade is fundamentally all about conscience and common sense.

WHY IS FAIR TRADE IMPORTANT?

The majority of our coffee, tea, cocoa and cotton are grown by poor people in developing countries, including parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Many of these farmers and workers

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