Why your organic, fair-trade, cruelty-free chocolate bar won’t save the world

Grist
By Nathanael JohnsonJun 1, 2015, 3:11 pm60 pts
International trade has made it impossible to see the consequences of our purchases. Buy a smartphone, and you might later learn you helped exploit factory workers. Eat a hamburger, only to find out that you are destroying the rainforest. Our textbook solution to this problem, to date, has been certification.…

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