Archive for January, 2009

Sweatshop Free/Fair Trade Shopping

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I was asked in response to my post yesterday to provide some suggestions as to what some of the best/worst companies to support are with regard to fair trade or to provide a resource.? Co-op America’s Repsonsible Shopper is probably the best resource that I can point you to.? It allows you to search for [...]

Moral responsibility of consumers

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Image courtesy of cgfan’s photostream This is a somewhat philosophical post that I have been wanting to write for awhile. We have moral obligations to not take advantage of injustice when at all possible. I began thinking about this in detail when I first started being aware of fair trade coffee and the rights of [...]

Make Time to Cook – a reminder from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

I promised more posts spawned from my summer reading of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and I’m sorry it’s taken me so long. I have a notebook full of notes and am getting around to pushing them through the blog machine to get to you. Cooking at home seems to be a dying art. Even ‘foodies’ often [...]