Thought for the Week: Fairtrade Fortnight

Judi Brill reflects on Fairtrade Fortnight: 27 February to 11 March

by Judi Brill 2nd March 2012

Years ago, during supper at Woodbrooke, the Friend in residence called for a few minutes of silence to give thanks for the food we were eating and for the hand that grew it. This thought took my imagination beyond agricultural machinery and combine harvesters to the human being who had nurtured and harvested the food. I wondered where they lived and what kind of conditions they worked in to produce the food I so readily took for granted.