Fair trade

Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Questions

What is fair-trade? Is it morally good to buy fair-trade?

Task 1 - draw the fair-trade logo and label it

Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Task 2

Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Look at the information on the bar of chocolate write down the costs, what have you noticed?

Non Cocoa ingredients

6.5 p

Non Cocoa ingredients

3.5p

Shop costs and profits

11p

Chocolate companies costs and

profits

21.5p

Tax 7.5p

Task 3 What do you think Now What do you think?

Is there any difference in

taste between the two

types of chocolate?

Is there a difference in

price?

If there is a difference in

price why do you think that

is?

Where do you think the

money you spent on your

chocolate bar goes?

For example does it go to

people in York, England, or

abroad?

Do you think as a buyer of

chocolate can you change

what big companies do?

Non Cocoa ingredients 6.5 p

Non Cocoa ingredients 3.5p

Shop costs and profits 11p

Chocolate companies costs and

profits21.5p

Tax 7.5p

Questions

What do you think about the distribution of money from the bar of chocolate?

Who benefits the least/most Where do you think the extra money will go

when consumers buy the fair-trade chocolate? Task 4 - On the next slide write down three of

the positive reasons for buying fair-trade

1. Fair Trade means that the people get paid a fair price so that they can buy food, buy clothes , keep their house warm , pay for school books

and school fees and pay for doctors and medicine  Can you think of any more important things that you need to pay for?  2. Because Fair Trade pays grown ups a fair wage, their children don’t have

work too. The children can go to school if there is one nearby.  3. Fair Trade means that people don’t have to work long hours without a break,

plantation or factory workers can have a holiday.  4. Fair Trade thinks about the environment and tries not to use harmful

chemicals.  5. Fair Trade also means that workers and farmers can choose how they work

and what happens at work. If they have a boss – she has to listen to the workers and include them.

 6. With Fair Trade, the buyers pay for their things immediately or even before they receive them. This means that the sellers don’t have to wait a long time for their money to pay for the things they need.

 7. Women have a special place in Fair Trade, their role is always extremely important and they are helped a lot. This is because women don’t often get any praise or thanks for all the hard work they do at home.

 8. 800,000 families benefit from Fair Trade.  9. You can find Fair Trade products in Worldshops, or Fair Trade Shops. There

are 116 in the United Kingdom