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if they aren't happy with the deal they get, they should sell to a different chain.
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That's the line which the supermarkets take, also.
So.... who should they all be selling their produce to ?
And what efforts are being made to educate them as to the existence of this 'ethical' supermarket ?
I have no idea who it might be, so i can only assume that people in deprived communities would have even less of an idea who to go to.
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"Fair trade" is really just protectionism under another name. That is not to say that it doesn't necessarily perform a useful role, but it does have a destabilising effect on the market and is in effect just a subsidy for foreign farmers.
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Please describe this destabliising effect.
Certainly, it seems to me that the opposite is true.
Leaving supermarkets to burn out supplier after supplier is doing nobody any good other than the richest people in the supermarket chain, as far as the market is concerned.
Fair Trade is about giving people the option, should they wish to do so, to pay people in impoverished communities enough for their produce, that the sellers in the supply chain are at least able to make a bare minimum sustainable wage.
UK supermarkets drive down wage of poorest workers
Action-Aid report : who pays ?
If you just don't care about this sort of thing, then that is your decision to make..... but supermarkets haqve been exposed for paying people 5p an hour to shell cashews, and giving people 10p for a kilo of bananas, and so forth....
Please read the report, to learn about the techniques which supermarkets use to exploit and control their suppliers.
If you can read all about it then come back and honestly say that you find all of that acceptable, then so be it.