Category: Fair Trade

PRODUCT: Chocolate Covered Banana Bites

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Kopali Organics specializes in chocolate-covered snacks: banana, cacao nibs, espresso beans, goji, goldenberry, mango, mixed fruits, mulberry and pineapple. The products are also Fair Trade Certified, which means that the enterprise supports thousands of family farmers and communities worldwide (more about Fair Trade certification). Plus, 100% of profits go to The Sylvia Center, a garden-to-table…
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PRODUCT: Equal Exchange Fair Trade Chocolate

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Make your daily chocolate nibble fairly-traded. Photo of Equal Exchange Minis by Elvira Kalviste.   This year, we went Fair Trade for Halloween. That means that the chocolate we handed out was ethically produced. While you won’t see many articles about it, cacao is an agricultural product that uses child slave labor in the fields.…
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PRODUCT: Lychee White Tea

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Fragrant and luscious, this tasty teaneeds no added sugar. Photo courtesyChoice Organic Tea.   The lychee (pronounced LIE-chee, not LEE-chee, after the Chinese lai chi) is one of the most popular fruits in Southern China. The evergreen grows wild in southern China, northern Vietnam and Cambodia, although there is evidence that it has been cultivated…
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