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...Students sampled the farmers’ fair-trade products, including apples, lettuce, and chocolate-covered bananas, at the event, which was sponsored by five student groups, including the Student Labor Action Movement and Oke USA, a cooperative farmers organization. After a lobbying campaign from the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative (HFTI), Harvard University Dining Services switched to fair trade coffee in 2002. Fair trade advocacy has gained presence in colleges in recent years. The United Students for Fair Trade, a national advocacy group, opened affiliates on over 100 U.S. campuses within a year of its founding in 2003, the Boston Globe...
...HFTI members will station themselves in the dining halls today to encourage students to try the fair trade product...
While HUDS could not reveal the price tag of its conventional bananas, HFTI member Julia Lewandowski ’06 estimated that fair trade bananas cost about 99 cents a pound in a grocery store—30 cents more than regular bananas...
Fair trade bananas will make their Harvard debut seven months after first appearing on the shelves of select U.S. food stores, thanks to the efforts of the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative (HFTI), a student group which member Mary M. Jirmanus ’05 described as committed to promoting conscious consumerism...
...HFTI already worked with HUDS to bring fair trade coffee to the houses in the spring of 2002, following the example of other colleges and coffee retailers...