I very much appreciated the May Record's focus on fair trade coffee. This is one way that we Christians can make a real change to the well being of growers in other countries.
Another advantage to buying fairly traded produce is that the food is (not always) grown organically. In the case of coffee this means that the coffee plants are not sprayed, as they are grown under the natural canopy of trees. This maintains the natural bio-diversity, thus improving the health of the workers, maintaining soils that can produce for longer than the 10 or fewer years currently the norm for most coffee plantations.
