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Fair Trade Certified Tea
Why drink Fair trade tea and coffee?
Fair Trade is not merely about getting a fair price for Tea! Fair Trade principles also include fair labor conditions, community development, environmental sustainability and direct trade with farmers.
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Fair Trade empowers tea workers to lift themselves out of relative poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and fostering education for themselves and their families.
TransFair USA, a non-profit organization, is the only independent, third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the U.S. TransFair’s rigorous audit system, which tracks products from farm to finished product, verifies industry compliance with Fair Trade criteria. They ensure that the Fair Trade premium that is paid voluntarily by providers of Fair Trade products ends up back in the hands of the communities that grow and pick the tea.
Fair Trade Tea Providers
Choice Organic Teas - Perfectly balanced tea. Pure ingredients, strict organic guidelines, and an ethics-driven Fair Trade philosophy. Choice Organic Teas is approved as a part of Whole Foods new Whole Trade™ Guarantee.
Equal Exchange - Founded in 1986, our fairly traded organic teas are sourced directly from India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa with the small-scale farmer in mind. Whereas the majority of tea comes from plantations, we are working to build an alternative system that supports small-scale tea producers.
Zhi Tea is proud provider of Fair Trade organic loose-leaf tea directly from the producers.
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Other Fair Trade Resources
Center for Food Safety - The goal of curtailing industrial agricultural production methods that harm human health and the environment, and promoting sustainable alternatives.
Pachamama Coop - Premium coffee from family micro-farmers in Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala and Péru.
Peace Pole Project - The Peace Pole project was started by the World Peace Society, a non profit, member supported, non-sectarian organization dedicated to uniting people across the world through the universal saying: "May peace prevail on earth."
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