Fair Trade Is Conservative

Tate & Lyle will now only be using Fairtrade sugar. Charity by another name? Better than slavery by another name.

And yes, fair trade does conserve working practices supporting and supported by traditional family and community structures. Good.

In Tate and Lyle’s Belize, that means traditional Christian family and community structures in one of the Queen’s Realms, whose people this arrangement will help to keep inclined towards continuing the connection that is the Crown.

Charity, Christianity, community, the Crown: fair trade is conservative.

It’s “free” trade that isn’t.