Weights and Measures

I was at the Fairtrade Association last week, one story really hit me, sadly i cant recall all the exact facts and fingers but the general idea goes something a little bit like this.

A very large fairtrade coffee co-op with over 50000 farmers can only sell a very small percentage of its product as fairtrade, because there is not enough demand for it, so sells the balance on the world market. Given the small percentage of fairtrade coffee people where starting to ask why so many farmers wanted to be a part of the co-op when so little of the coffee was receiving the fairtrade price.

The farmers response make a pretty big statement, "the coffee beans always weight more when weighed by the co-op"

Sadly we live in a world where justice is not always done, but heres yet another example of a good reason to support fairtrade.