Reminder: tea has to be processed end-to-end close to where it's harvested.

That doesn't guarantee that that tea is always ethical, of course — there are still concerns around foreign investors and labour practices — but it makes it more likely. That's why "fair trade" isn't as common for tea.

Chocolate and coffee, by comparison, require only a little initial in-country processing after harvest to extract the moisture from the berries/beans and stabilise them, then they can be shipped to the global north for for most of the "value-added" processing, hence misleading terms like "Swiss chocolate" (no, the Alpine meadows aren't covered in cacao trees). In those cases, the "fair trade" designation might matter.

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Im März 2026 finden in Gerolzhofen und Rügshofen die Stadtrats- und Bürgermeisterwahl statt. Ich stehe wieder als Bürgermeister zur Wahl.

Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Sie mir weiterhin das Vertrauen aussprechen.

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Interesting read about recycled and fair traded rubber for tires and inner tubes:

"...as a private, family-owned company, Schwalbe has unique control over its own will. It’s not beholden to stockholders’ demands for profits. And at least in the short term, fair-trade rubber does not increase profits. Nor does recycling, for that matter. But as Jahn puts it “We don’t think in quarters. We think in generations.”

https://theradavist.com/schwalbe-bike-tires-fair-rubber-alliance

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'Ăn thì cho, buôn thì so' – Khi ăn, hãy chia sẻ, cho người cần; khi buôn bán, hãy công bằng, tính lời rõ ràng. Một câu tục ngữ ngắn gọn, sâu sắc, nhắc nhở chúng ta sống có đạo đức trong ăn uống và kinh doanh. #VietnameseProverb #Vietnam #CulturalWisdom #proverb #ăn #buôn #đạođức #câu_ tục_ ngữ #share #fairtrade

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Im März 2026 finden in Gerolzhofen und Rügshofen die Stadtrats- und Bürgermeisterwahl statt. Ich stehe wieder als Bürgermeister zur Wahl. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Sie mir weiterhin das Vertrauen aussprechen.

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