Fairtrade System Analysis

I’ve a confession: "shopping lists don’t excite me.” I’m a very bizarre individual; yup it’s ironic that I’m here professing my opinion at all. But, admittedly I do exist, and when it comes to lists I remember what I require. I’m a consumer-watch nightmare. I shop like a SAS recruit and rarely go off piste when it comes to purchasing items I hadn’t memorised. I don’t spare a moment to think of foreign farmers well-being or believe that buying a ‘FT’ labelled coffee would mean a Latin American community won’t be educated in a pigsty now – ‘nothing worse than teachers getting interrupted by livestock, or youngsters complaining that a potbelly had scoffed their textbooks.’ You can see why the ‘Fairtrade system’ had to step in to save education. …show more content…
What is dishevelled to the ‘FT marketers is indeed a highly profitable holding in Bolivia for the region; their inadvertently lassoing small-holdings within the regions to greater product paucity. What capitalists don’t comprehend is that the caste system is the developed world’s disease; they don’t pay attention that fifty years ago farming survived without intervention / aid. The ‘FT Foundation’ is not exactly bridging the gap from so-called cut-off regions market-wise but allowing producers in to the scheme based on whether a small-holding can afford the annual fees to reap the rewards of ‘Fairtrade’ - the minority of the UK public are aware of the disparities therein. From a different perspective you’d of thought that quality of produce supersedes a producer’s capital capability; no, the ‘FT Foundation’ automatically deems that quality goes hand in hand with the farm’s capital (ability to be a paying member of the ‘FT …show more content…
Cultures are losing their unique branding due to this avalanche of fair trading branding, in a generation unique brands will be saturated, they’ll die or be corporately lassoed via ‘Fairtrade.’ You’re aware that the ‘FT’ machine has a mission not unlike a twenty-first century Mother Teresa; the mission concurs… “It’s overly simplistic to suggest geography alone determines wealth or poverty as we all know there are huge disparities of wealth in many Latin American countries, as there are in many African ones too.” Meaningless capitalist dribble echoes of a divine path of righteousness. The co-operative does more than just deal with exporting of produce they teach communities too. Of course, the system is designated for ‘FT’ products only. Those who work with a region’s natural resources, again extortionate fees are required to join the trade syndicate under the umbrella of