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Is the label fair enough?

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 @ 00:00

In the run up to Fairtrade Fortnight, Julia McGuinness finds that the Fairtrade mark is not the only signpost for ethical consumers

SOME see a blue-faced parrot, others see a green leaf. For some, the black swirl at the centre of the design is a road towards a fairer future; for others, it is a figure holding one arm aloft.

However you see it, the Fairtrade mark is now recognisable by 74 per cent of UK consumers. And Chris­tians have helped to make it familiar. “Churches have been the vanguard of the UK’s Fairtrade movement,” the Fairtrade Foundation’s director of com­munications and campaigns team, ...

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