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After you have explored our Padlet, please solve these following tasks:

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https://moodle.uni-due.de/mod/hvp/view.php?id=603627

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Fairphone- a phone for starry- eyed idealists!

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Fairphone- a phone for starry- eyed idealists!

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- A smartphone made of  conflict- free, ecofriendly material
- fairly produced
- all workers are well- paid
- easy to repair

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reduce the risk of child labour

no forced labour

high quality through natural agriculture

get a fixed minimum price for their goods (are paid fairly)

the existence of the workers are secured

keep the environment the same or improve it

get money for hospitals,water cooler and equipment

securing of human rights

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https://moodle.uni-due.de/mod/quiz/view.php?id=603339

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Finding an excuse for doing something bad after doing something good. For example you buy a Fair Trade product, which helps the environment and then you think that you can do bad things to the environment.

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This inviting and colorful animation was created for Fair Trade USA's effort to educate American consumers about the importance of buying Fair Trade certified products. In just over a minute "Every Purchase Matters" shows the link between how choices American consumers make at the store can support ecosystems, economies, families, and education systems around the world.

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After you have done all five tasks, please leave a comment  to Fair clothing and Fairphone.
Consider that your comments are in short sentences. Don't comment in a bad and rude way. We are looking forward to read your comments:)

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https://moodle.uni-due.de/mod/choice/view.php?id=603113

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Comment on the Video: "The Fair Trade asshole" 

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Comment on the Video: "The Fair Trade asshole" 

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This comment will discuss the question if buying Fair Trade products makes you an asshole.

The author states that buying Fair Trade products gives you a moral license to be an asshole.
For example you buy Fair Trade bananas, making you think that you have done enough for the environment. As a result you drive the 250 meters back home by car because you think you have a permission to do so.
While there is no doubt that buying Fair Trade products can have a bad influence on your behaviour, it must also be mentioned that this bad influence does not affect every person.

The author does not mention that it can influence you in another way: People who buy Fair Trade products tend to judge other people, who do not buy them. You often can find this phenomenon on vegan online blogs.

Another important fact is that many  “assholes” do not want to spend extra money on Fair Trade products to support farmers. In reverse, people buying Fair Trade products might feel happier, so they treat their environment in a better way.

All in all, buying Fair Trade products does not automatically influence your behaviour but in some cases it might have a bad influence on how you see yourself compared to other people and how you treat them.

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Buying Organic, Fair-Trade Food Makes You An A$$hole

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Ever feel like people who eat responsibly can be jerk? It turns out it's not just you. Hannah and Elliott Morgan tell you how buying organic makes you an asshole. Let us know if you think that buy healthy turns you into a jerk.

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This comment will discuss the question ''Is Fair Trade really fair?''

In our opinion the main idea of Fair Trade is a good option to improve the working and living conditions in developing countries, but there are many problems about this topic.
First of all, small farmers take advantage of the fairtrade minimum price.
This system enables them to improve their living- and working conditions in small villages.
On the other hand, only small farmers benefit from the Fair Trade program and other farmers are excluded.
The license is so expensive that the boss passes the costs on to his workers. The effect is that some normal workers earn more money than Fair Trade workers, but Fair Trade workers still have better working conditions.
Another big issue is that Fair Trade is not a protected brand, so some companies make use of it for a better image. There are not any legally set fair trade rules, so every company can make their own regulations.
Furthermore, mixed products have to consist at least 20% of Fair Trade ingredients.
It could happen that for example in a juice factory they use 50% Fair Trade oranges and 50% normal oranges. So it is possible that one of the final products does not contain any Fair Trade oranges, but still has the Fair Trade logo on it.
Moreover, Fair Trade does not buy every product from one farmer. For example Fair Trade might just buy half of the products produced by the Fair Trade farmer. But the Fair Trade farmer has to sell at least 20% of his products to have enough money to survive.

All in all, the concept of Fair Trade is helpful but there is a lot of space to improve. There have to be more rules. Buying Fair Trade products is a great approach, but the whole system is not mature enough to solve all the problems.

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The following summary will show you the benefits of buying fair products, inform you about working conditions in sweatshops and point out how to prevent environmental damage.

The decisions we make during our shopping can have a  significant impact. Fair Trade is a social movement which tries to help people who make products for our daily life in developing countries. Before the products come to our markets, they have to go on a long journey and that means hard work.

At the same time the workers earn little money from it. There are advantages like farmers know the true value of products, so it is easier to negotiate the prices, access to credits and they are able to learn from each other. Fair Trade workers do not work alone because they are members of cooperatives.

Besides that, it helps having a stable income because it improves a whole family´s opportunities and reduces the risk of child labor.
The system tries to support people to work in better conditions and helps them to get more money for what they make. Apart from that, it also tries to keep the environment the same or to improve it.
But there are also disadvantages: Fair trade products are more expensive than normal products and you never know if they are really fair products.

Another point to consider is that there is only a small selection of products. There are many products available such as bananas, rice, cocoa, cotton and others.
Fair Trade products are offered in restaurants, planes, markets and so on.

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Why did we choose this video to introduce our classmates into the topic?

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no slavery and child labour

good working conditions in nice working places

not too expensive -> middle price class

not everybody has fair clothes because it is difficult to find them -> not impossible (in Germany there are some fair clothing selling stores  e.g. in Stuttgart)

sewers don't have to work 16+ hours a day

can look very nice