Buy Fair!

In many parts of the world our basic commodities like tea, coffee and chocolate are picked by indentured workers – at near slave salaries and conditions. The fair trade movement seeks publicise the problem and to rectify this. It has the support of many churches including St Paul’s.

It will soon be the Fair Trade fortnight, and at the service this morning there was a stand offering fair trade chocolate for gifts for Easter. One offering, the real Easter egg, had the additional benefit of having included in it the account of the Easter story. Without that magnificent occasion of Christ’s rising triumphantly from the dead, there would be no Easter eggs or Easter bunnies.
So, as you are doing your regular shopping, do look out for the Fairtrade symbol, and remember those who have harvested the commodity.