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Fair Trade Coffee updated Mon Jul 25 2011 11:07 pm EDT

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Fair Trade is a worldwide movement to of small companies and consumers, that aims to provide fair prices to Third World producers of coffee, tea, and other consumables. It relies on free markets, but does not try to maximize profit at the expense of quality and the producers. While large corporations are very good at getting products inexpensively to the consumer, this is often done at a very high cost to the environment and the farmers. Fair Coffee Trade strives to pay small coffee farmers "fair prices" for their products - not to drive them out of business in favor of large corporate "coffee factories". The result of Coffee Fair Trade is a growing number of coffee farmers who can make a decent living, while providing tasty, healthy products, and farming in a sustainable way.