Make Wales the First Fairtrade Country
February 28th, 2007 by Stephen
There is a campaign afoot to make Wales the first fairtrade country. Fair trade products ensure that producers of the product are given a fair price for their product, rather than all of the profit being taken by middle men. It is a great scheme, although it is easily abused by middle men who also charge a premium on the product!
But we buy fair trade whenever we have the option. Despite these abuses of the scheme, and the fact that sometimes the administration of the scheme is not 100% perfect, it is simply more just that we ensure that producers in poorer nations are not exploited by a drive to lower prices in countries that can afford to pay a fraction more.
Here is a lint to the web site for the “Make Wales a Fair Trade Country” campaign. The campaign has a lot of support, including in the Welsh Assembly.
However, they could probably have chosen a better domain for a campaign about wales. The domain they are using is gwe.nu. Now .nu is the top level domain ID for the island of Niue. A little to the east of Tonga, this island is just about as far away from Wales that you can get!
