Are you able to come along to Tesco Clifton Moor on Friday morning at 10.30, to support a very important campaign? More details below! York Shoppers in Call to “Make Bananas Fair” (extracts from Press Release): Shoppers from York are calling on local Asda and Tesco stores to prove that banana farmers and workers in the developing world are not suffering as a result of supermarket price wars, by sourcing more Fairtrade bananas. Local campaigners will gather at the Tesco Extra Store in Clifton Moor on Friday 12th December at 10.30am with a giant Fairtrade banana to lobby the supermarket to switch to Fairtrade as they negotiate supplier contracts for the year ahead. The UK retail price of loose bananas has almost halved over the past 10 years, while the cost of producing them has doubled. Banana farmers and workers are paying the price for the nations cheap fruit, with many trapped in an unrelenting cycle of poverty. But retailers who source their bananas as Fairtrade can assure their customers that despite retail price wars, farmers and workers producing the fruit continue to receive agreed, transparent Fairtrade prices and premiums. Currently, one in three bananas sold in the UK is Fairtrade but Asda and Tesco source less than 10% of their bananas on Fairtrade terms. More than eight in ten shoppers say they would pay more for their bananas if the farmers and workers who produced them benefit as a result. Cllr Linsay Cunningham-Cross said: “Earlier this year York celebrated 10 years as a Fairtrade City in recognition of our longstanding tradition of supporting fair and ethical trading. The commitment to a living wage shouldn’t stop at the authority boundaries. Supporting Fairtrade is just one of the ways that we can help to ensure everyone, no matter where they work, is able to earn a decent wage for a day’s work.” Michael Gidney, Chief Executive of the Fairtrade Foundation, said: It seems absurd that bananas are the UK’s most popular fruit, yet many of the people who grow them are living in poverty. If Waitrose, Sainsburys and the Co-operative can sell 100% Fairtrade bananas, then Asda and Tesco can do better than their current offering of less than 10% Fairtrade, and no Fairtrade in some stores.”
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:55:33 +0000
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