Fair trade
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Sep 12, 2026
Jon RichardsonHOST
I can't have one, though.
Russell HowardHOST
Why's that? Old Fairtrade chocolate.
Jon RichardsonHOST
It's Fairtrade.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Although I might have, over Christmas I'm not doing the Fairtrade thing.
Jon RichardsonHOST
For Christmas week.
Russell HowardHOST
[laughs]
Russell HowardHOST
Throw 'em.
Russell HowardHOST
Fill it up.
speaker_1HOST
Let me present a statistic from a researcher named Raunchy.
speaker_1HOST
cited in the Wikipedia source material regarding Fairtrade products.
speaker_1HOST
Fairtrade is the ultimate ethical guarantee.
speaker_1HOST
It ensures the farmers growing your coffee or harvesting your cocoa are paid a living wage, aren't using child labor, and are using sustainable farming practices.
speaker_1HOST
In surveys, consumers express massive near-universal support for Fairtrade.
speaker_0HOST
As they should.
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
speaker_1HOST
So in 2003, global sales of Fairtrade products reached over 83 million U.S. dollars.
Jamie TrebyGUEST
And a good cooperative can step in.
Jamie TrebyGUEST
That's also where the certs come in as well, like Fairtrade, Rainforest Organic.
Jamie TrebyGUEST
They've helped address that as well.
Jamie TrebyGUEST
And I think at Wakefield, we've always been quite big.
Jamie TrebyGUEST
We were the first Fairtrade license in coffee.
Jamie TrebyGUEST
We introduced Rainforest Alliance to the UK.
Jamie TrebyGUEST
We were the first organic license.
Magnus Burrett-SimonsHOST
Second, shop consciously.
Magnus Burrett-SimonsHOST
Look for labels like Fairtrade or Goodweave when you buy goods like chocolate, coffee or cotton.
Magnus Burrett-SimonsHOST
These labels mean the product has been checked and is less likely to involve child labour.
Magnus Burrett-SimonsHOST
When lots of people choose ethical products, companies take notice and clean up their supply chains.
Martin Allen MoralesGUEST
We had a record company, an ingredients company.
Martin Allen MoralesGUEST
We brought Fairtrade quinoa to this country for the first time.
Martin Allen MoralesGUEST
And we also had a charity that we supported, a children's education charity.
Martin Allen MoralesGUEST
And that was my first experience.
Stefania CoxHOST
And just adjacent to the Venezuela oil deal, the G20 taking aim at China's trade practices and Beijing refusing to back the group's joint statement on global economic imbalances.
Kerry DunstHOST
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson made that economic growth with fair and reasonable excuse me, with Fair Trade, the central focus during a two-day summit in North Carolina.
Kerry DunstHOST
He zeroed in on China's massive export surplus.
Kerry DunstHOST
They didn't really have much choice.
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Stefania CoxHOST
President Trump says ExxonMobil and Chevron are among the companies planning to do business in Venezuela.
Stefania CoxHOST
And the G20 takes aim at China's trade practices, and Beijing refuses to back the group's joint statement on global economic imbalances.
Kerry DunstHOST
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant made economic growth and fair trade the central focus during a two-day summit in North Carolina, where he pretty much played host.
Kerry DunstHOST
He zeroed in on China's massive export surplus.
Amy ChapmanHOST
But anyway.
Amy ChapmanHOST
Anyway, today we're talking to Larissa Kennedy, who is a trustee of the Fair Trade Foundation, a climate justice activist, and so much more.
Katrina RidleyHOST
Yeah, I am just...
Katrina RidleyHOST
I feel like there's so much I want to ask her in terms of academia, culture... heritage um i'm sure it's going to be a very interesting chat so let's get larissa in
Larissa KennedyGUEST
hi friends my name is larissa i'm a doctoral researcher a community builder and a very proud member of the board at the fair trade foundation my nan was born and raised in jamaica came to the uk as part of the windrush generation it was in her garden and in the things that she grew that I started to understand this relationship between nature, food systems and climate justice.
Larissa KennedyGUEST
Larissa, welcome to
Amy ChapmanHOST
Connect to Nature.
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Larissa KennedyGUEST
Yeah,
Chris BacaHOST
Some people do care, but... can't do a compelling enough job connecting that story with people who want to hear it um because as good as people say these programs are we still live in this industry where the reality of 80 of what we sell is the blends that we already talked about so we're like the work that we have to do is to connect these programs with people who believe in them and transition like we need to actively grow these things in the same way that we're actively trying to get people to be like i know you hate espresso this shit is different this is like some different level shit but it's really easy to take for granted
CharlesHOST
Yeah, I mean, I was just saying it's like, I don't know if it's a low bar in that, like, I probably have more conversations with people asking me if our coffee is Fairtrade than I do with any of our guests that ask me about the Best Friends Club.
CharlesHOST
Fairtrade's been indoctrinated, though.
CharlesHOST
Right.
CharlesHOST
But it's so far away from anything that we engage in.
Lee SafarHOST
Problems were starting to emerge in 2024 and 2025.
Lee SafarHOST
Then the next red flag, Fairtrade Germany says that it became aware of issues with these payments from COMSAR in June of 2025.
Lee SafarHOST
Right.
Lee SafarHOST
So there is an established pipeline here that was official because Fair Trade Germany was told about it and Fair Trade in a press release specifically about these series sent me very clear understanding that, yes, we were alerted to this.
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Lee SafarHOST
And I did not have a high opinion of fair trade before this.
Lee SafarHOST
I have an even lower opinion and a lower respect for fair trade after this given what is an absolute – I don't know what the right word is, but like a failure to protect the most vulnerable in the supply chain, given how much money they make from how much business they get from a vulnerable group of people who are led to believe that they are going to be protected by a certification.
Lee SafarHOST
Having said that, though, here's what Fairtrade says.
Lee SafarHOST
They received an allegation in June of 2025.
Steve GruberHOST
Now, these are not complicated points.
Steve GruberHOST
Fair trade means fair treatment.
Steve GruberHOST
When one side refuses to deliver it, the other side is entitled to respond.
Steve GruberHOST
And yet Ottawa's reaction is to escalate.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
How bad is it in, in, in Canada? And, and what changes do you think need to be made, uh, at this point? I, I don't think you're really negotiating from a strong position.
Steve GruberHOST
Now, none of this is abstract to the people who actually produce Canada's wealth.
Steve GruberHOST
A country that opens its response to American tariffs with a land acknowledgement, freezes the bank accounts of its own truckers, expands euthanasia while its growth ranking collapses, installs American Democratic operatives in the prime minister's office, invents culture war excuses to reject fair trade terms, and drives its most productive province toward a separation vote is not acting from strength.
Steve GruberHOST
It's acting from ideology.
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