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Originally Posted by Doug
Not being a well person at the moment I don't want to get excited. Why are we doing this when our own producers are being forced out of the local market place, same within europe. Why is it this country that always feels the need to get involved in someones else problems. We need to reinvest in our own people Gayle, sustain our own market place and then go and save the world. People are making money out of Fairtrade no doubt about it. Yesterday the local producer drove a tractor, today he might have a Toyota 4x4, the worker is still on a penny a day and works dawn to dusk, Health and Safety is an excuse of British self rightousness and not a real concideration in the third world nor many other places beyond these shores.
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Quite agree, they should keep their noses out, and be concentrating on stopping the planned expansion of multi-national giant retailers at Whitebirk, before this town dies on it's arse.
The argument that some of the supermarket giants will stock a minute supply of locally produced goods just doesn't cut it.
Perhaps HBC should be offering one of the many empty shops in the town centre to the Freetrade movement, at least it would be a change from all the empty/ charity/ pound shops.