Fair Trade Rice

"Although rice farmers feed much of the world's population, depressed world rice prices, coupled with increasing agricultural costs and exploitative trade policies, have left many rice farmers landless, in debt, and unable to provide for their own families. With Fair Trade rice, consumers are able to purchase high quality rice from farmers who earn a living wage, work under fair labor conditions, manage their own cooperatives, and are not exploited by corrupt middlemen.

As demand for Fair Trade Rice in the United States increases, more farmers in Thailand and India are able to reap the benefits of their harvest. Families stay intact and the community and environment thrives. By purchasing Fair Trade Rice, you ensure that the farmers who grow your food can maintain sustainable livelihoods while providing you with the highest quality food available."

Noble cause it seems. Like all the other "noble causes", increasing the sales of "Fair Trade Rice" depending solely on bargain hunting consumers would be a losing game. Powerful government entities must be aligned to tackle the exploitation of rice farmers and their endless miseries. Perhaps, like all the other "must be done" steps, this will also remain to be locked in distant shore of humanity from where cries from hunger and injustice fade away by the winds of Darwinian economic might.

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Fair Trade Rice