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Fair Trade Trickle Down Economics?

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Despite fair trade’s healthy and honorable intentions, and its increasing success, the brutal fact remains that the Fair Trademovement could raise its overall market share by 1000% and still have a negligible effect on helping poor farmers and people climb out of poverty. unfortunately the fair trade market helps the rich bet richer and the poor farmer gets the smallest slice of the pie if any pie at all. Unfortunately concept and reality is not the same thing in terms Read More

The Ban on Greyhound Racing in the ACT

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This is a big issue in the Australian Capital Territory as the Greyhound Industry gears up for a legal challenge to the governments disbandment of it. The question is whether it constitutes a sport or a business that exploits innocent animals and causes them pain and suffering. The other agenda at work here is the clamp down on gambling in the territory. One can’t be seen to support a racing industry while denying other forms of it. The feeling in Read More