Y'see, here in the UK we have posh kids who decide they need to go abroad to show off how rich and thus caring they are. So much so that this video became a viral hit almost overnight due to it being so...true
Here is the site I was talking about though. I know it's cynical as hell, but you've gotta laugh.
http://gurlgoestoafrica.tumblr.com
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How it works: I give $10 to charity, 90% goes to the charity for handling, shipping and administration ... BADABooM! There goes 9 bucks. Lucky there is $1 left. "It only takes a dollar day to feed gibateech" ... But wait! Who are those niggas driving through the village with ak47s and rocket launchers.... ONOEZ! It's the village militants :eek: this isn't gonna go well. HEY! They just took gibateech's $1 But it's all good because they'll sell it back to gibateech for 9 bucks or feed gibateech each day for the bargain price of digging for diamonds.
Even fairtrade products are bullshit, they only have to be a set amount of fair trade to get the stamp of approval.
If your jar of coffee powder is fair trade, there is a good chance that it contains no fairtrade stuff at all.
Since it will be something like one in every six loads that is fairtrade, and it all goes in the same hopper then there is no way of telling what beans are fairtrade.
Interesting piece there Lysdexic. I thought it was all Fairtrade, but maybe not. I'll have to get researching this stuff. It just annoys me that people blindly accept it all as truth and call me a cynical human-hating bastard when all I do is suggest improvements.
Interesting piece there Lysdexic. I thought it was all Fairtrade, but maybe not. I'll have to get researching this stuff. It just annoys me that people blindly accept it all as truth and call me a cynical human-hating bastard when all I do is suggest improvements.