Why should you buy fairtrade?

Answer 1

It's important to buy Fair Trade because taking these kinds of steps are what can end or at the very least decrease child slavery. I did a project on the Chocolate Trade and Africa and I was shocked to discover just how much of our most luxurious treats such as coffee and chocolate are a product of child slavery. The biggest corporations such as Nestle, Hershey's, and Mars are huge money makers partially because they get their cocoa beans at low prices since the labor cost to gather them is free. Only smaller, less known businesses guarantee Fairtrade products. Although these corporations are taking steps to try and fight child slavery, Fairtrade is an even bigger step to making an end to it. Even though Fairtrade is more expensive, it's a matter of suffering and starvation of innocent children. The children are taken from their families; many of them will never see their parents, siblings, or friends again. They live under the most awful conditions and are abused by their captors. I never looked at a chocolate bar the same after learning about this; the fact that our pleasure in these luxuries is the bi product of pain and abuse from an innocent child was beyond disturbing. Fairtrade is important because it's giving us the chance to force these corporations to demand the end of child slavery and is helping win the fight in hope that these kids can live again.

Answer 2

You should buy fair-trade products because the farmers work all day for your food and they usualy don't get any food!