Comments on: Fair trade certification labels http://greenlagirl.com/2006/04/29/fair-trade-certification-labels/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:40:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Siel http://greenlagirl.com/2006/04/29/fair-trade-certification-labels/#comment-3932 Siel Sat, 06 May 2006 20:07:01 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2006/04/29/fair-trade-certification-labels/#comment-3932 The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf was actually the first company I "bugged" about fair trade -- <a href="http://greenlagirl.com/2005/07/17/whats-in-a-sticker-coffee-crisis-104/" rel="nofollow">I talked to Jay</a> there. Not only do they not have any fair trade coffee, they also only offer one organic blend -- which tastes quite gross. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf was actually the first company I “bugged” about fair trade — I talked to Jay there. Not only do they not have any fair trade coffee, they also only offer one organic blend — which tastes quite gross.

]]> By: Roger, Gone Green http://greenlagirl.com/2006/04/29/fair-trade-certification-labels/#comment-3727 Roger, Gone Green Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:10:53 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2006/04/29/fair-trade-certification-labels/#comment-3727 Always appreciate these clarifications -- especially as more companies create logos to designate their own supposedly "fairly traded" practices. Amusingly, for all the grief given SBX, I recently had occasion to stop at a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf . . . 0% FT . . . and when I left a comment card, the response was "we have our own program, its better, we play fair with our farmers" yada yada yada . . . It may be that some regulation (perhaps just as to transparency) is needed before one can make "fairly traded" or similar claims . . . I know the Green candidates for Congress in the 29th Dist. and likely the 28th would support a transparency reg. for such claims -- perhaps you could check with the incumbents? Oh, and the coffee was not yummy at CBTF. Always appreciate these clarifications — especially as more companies create logos to designate their own supposedly “fairly traded” practices.

Amusingly, for all the grief given SBX, I recently had occasion to stop at a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf . . . 0% FT . . . and when I left a comment card, the response was “we have our own program, its better, we play fair with our farmers” yada yada yada . . . It may be that some regulation (perhaps just as to transparency) is needed before one can make “fairly traded” or similar claims . . . I know the Green candidates for Congress in the 29th Dist. and likely the 28th would support a transparency reg. for such claims — perhaps you could check with the incumbents?

Oh, and the coffee was not yummy at CBTF.

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