Today, my entire family went to church at 8:30, went out to breakfast at Towson Diner, to a ‘Fair Trade Fair Talk’ seminar at the church, and then up to Pennsylvania for my mom’s birthday Dinner. The seminar was about a program designed to spread equality across the globe in trade and consumerism. For example, a woman in El Salvador knits a hat for a sale. She gives it to a company to sell, and it travels to America, to some superstore like Wal-Mart where the consumer and business forgets entirely about the poor people who make the things we need/want. Unfortunately, she gets less than 1% of the profit even though she made the hat. Fair Trade is made to protect the rights of the individual by cutting out the corporation. Things may cost more, but the individual makes up to 40% profit, instead of less than 1%. This is a huge program at my church, and especially in the Presbyterian community.
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