Comments on: Sunday solutions: Fair trade wine http://greenlagirl.com/sunday-solutions-fair-trade-wine/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:11:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Siel http://greenlagirl.com/sunday-solutions-fair-trade-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-391530 Siel Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:54:50 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/?p=5238#comment-391530 Yes, fair trade has to do with imports. Thanks for the UFW page! interesting! Yes, fair trade has to do with imports. Thanks for the UFW page! interesting!

]]> By: jennyw http://greenlagirl.com/sunday-solutions-fair-trade-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-391087 jennyw Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:53:37 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/?p=5238#comment-391087 Good info. It's great to know to be able to buy fair trade brands of wines. But fair trade is generally applied to imported products, right? Is there any similar certification to make sure workers in the U.S. are also paid fairly? It would be great to be able to buy local as well as fair (and also organic and cruelty free, too!), especially for those who live in California since there are so many wineries in the state. I don't know of a comprehensive way to find out whether grape pickers are fairly paid or not, but UFW does have this page up that shows some wine labels (that use grapes picked by UFW workers: http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=organizing&inc=orga_label.html note: several of the labels listed go to a single winery; also, some of the wineries linked to have labels besides the ones listed, which possibly do not use UFW worker picked grapes. Good info. It’s great to know to be able to buy fair trade brands of wines. But fair trade is generally applied to imported products, right? Is there any similar certification to make sure workers in the U.S. are also paid fairly? It would be great to be able to buy local as well as fair (and also organic and cruelty free, too!), especially for those who live in California since there are so many wineries in the state. I don’t know of a comprehensive way to find out whether grape pickers are fairly paid or not, but UFW does have this page up that shows some wine labels (that use grapes picked by UFW workers:

http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=organizing&inc=orga_label.html

note: several of the labels listed go to a single winery; also, some of the wineries linked to have labels besides the ones listed, which possibly do not use UFW worker picked grapes.

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