February 10th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
Fair trade chocolate helps farmers escape poverty We’ve heard about chocolate’s health benefits, but - only 1 cent from a typical candy bar goes to the farmer. Valentine’s Day is indelibly associated with chocolate. The desire for chocolate is even stronger because of all the reporting of chocolate’s remarkable health benefits. But are we being […]
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May 20th, 2009 by Savvy Veg
Our planet produces enough food to feed everybody. The basic cause of global hunger is a production and distribution system that makes food a commodity rather than a human right Article excerpt from the The Nation (This article appears in the June 1, 2009 edition of The Nation) Our planet produces enough food to feed […]
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May 9th, 2009 by Savvy Veg
Yesterday I read three articles which helped me connect the dots: Capitalist greed, leading to planetary destruction and global suffering - pandemics, drought, extreme poverty, starvation, mass migrations, and war You’d think that anybody who’s paying attention couldn’t possibly miss what’s going on in the world, but sometimes we can’t see the deforestation for the […]
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