Comments on: Your organic, fair trade chocolate (soy) milk http://greenlagirl.com/2008/04/19/your-organic-fair-trade-chocolate-soy-milk/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Rodney North http://greenlagirl.com/2008/04/19/your-organic-fair-trade-chocolate-soy-milk/#comment-279917 Rodney North Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:44:29 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2008/04/19/your-organic-fair-trade-chocolate-soy-milk/#comment-279917 Jack, you can learn all you need about how to get Fair Trade certified from www.flo-cert.org. And - to give credit where its due - I happen to know that the Trader Joe's Fair Trade, organic hot cocoa (aka "CONACADO HOT COCOA") also uses Fair Trade Certified sugar. However, I don't think the Dagoba or Lake Champlain cocoa's do. Lastly, this is a good time to mention that we at Equal Exchange are helping to promote community screenings of the new documentary - "The Price of Sugar" - that is focused on the rampant abuses of migrant Haitian laborers on vast sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. (Siel has blogged about this film previously. ) To learn more see http://www.equalexchange.coop/fair-trade-sugar . All of the $175 fee to purchase a copy of the film for screening is donated to a non-profit health organization working in rural Latin America, including the very same Dominican plantations featured in the documentary. Jack, you can learn all you need about how to get Fair Trade certified from http://www.flo-cert.org.

And - to give credit where its due - I happen to know that the Trader Joe’s Fair Trade, organic hot cocoa (aka “CONACADO HOT COCOA”) also uses Fair Trade Certified sugar. However, I don’t think the Dagoba or Lake Champlain cocoa’s do.

Lastly, this is a good time to mention that we at Equal Exchange are helping to promote community screenings of the new documentary - “The Price of Sugar” - that is focused on the rampant abuses of migrant Haitian laborers on vast sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. (Siel has blogged about this film previously. )

To learn more see http://www.equalexchange.coop/fair-trade-sugar .

All of the $175 fee to purchase a copy of the film for screening is donated to a non-profit health organization working in rural Latin America, including the very same Dominican plantations featured in the documentary.

]]> By: Jack http://greenlagirl.com/2008/04/19/your-organic-fair-trade-chocolate-soy-milk/#comment-279648 Jack Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:29:00 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2008/04/19/your-organic-fair-trade-chocolate-soy-milk/#comment-279648 Interesting article. We sell organic vanilla from our own plantations and grower groups, but it is not certified as Fair Trade. What is required to get this certification? Jack Interesting article. We sell organic vanilla from our own plantations and grower groups, but it is not certified as Fair Trade. What is required to get this certification? Jack

]]> By: Jack http://greenlagirl.com/2008/04/19/your-organic-fair-trade-chocolate-soy-milk/#comment-279647 Jack Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:28:30 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2008/04/19/your-organic-fair-trade-chocolate-soy-milk/#comment-279647 Interesting article. We sell organic vanilla from our own plantations abnd grower groups, but it is not certified as Fair Trade. What is required to get this certification? Jack Interesting article. We sell organic vanilla from our own plantations abnd grower groups, but it is not certified as Fair Trade. What is required to get this certification? Jack

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