Consumers demand more morals on the menu

[Judi Lynn]

Consumers demand more morals on the menu
Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:44 AM ET

By Eleanor Wason
LONDON (Reuters) - Food groups such as Nestle (NESN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) and Sara Lee Corp. (SLE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) face growing pressure from consumers to guarantee farmers in poor countries a better deal, the head of a so-called ethical coffee scheme said on Tuesday.

Consumers also want to know where their food comes from and that it is produced without damage to the environment.

"There is ever more focus on transparency in food chains. Consumers expect companies to know where their products come from and how they are made," Utz Kapeh Executive Director David Rosenberg told Reuters.

"They trust a brand. They are buying the relationship buyers have with producers. Consumers can be lazy but they can also be unforgiving when they find you have abused that relationship," he added.
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[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. Heh heh...

When I first saw the headline, my immediate reaction was "how can a cheeseburger be gay?"

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Well, you've got all that hot meat together...

;)

[Kolesar]

4. Stop it

Some of us are still eating breakfast here !!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Hey, you're lucky I didn't get to the punchline.

:)

[Sabriel]

8. Did it have to do with buns, perhaps? n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Ding ding ding!

:hi:

[Tesha]

7. Meat and Dairy melding together is an abomination, doncha know? (NT)

[htuttle]

9. God Hates Cheeseburgers

[UncleSepp]

18. Bacon cheeseburgers doubly so!

[flygal]

2. I know I'm shopping more and more enviro-friendly

It's more expensive which is b.s. - but I buy less groceries esp. eating less meat - only about once a day. When you eat better you tend to eat less so it's a wash.

[HERVEPA]

6. more morals = no meat

[foflappy]

12. I guess that not eating meat makes one more arrogant.

[RayOfHope]

11. Are we sure they don't mean 'morels'? n/t

[jmowreader]

16. Hope not. Morels are too fragile to mass produce

[foflappy]

13. Fair Trade

is only growing and it may be one of the most revolutionary forms of poverty reduction that globalization can bring.

I am suprised that the article was as simplistic as it was considering the scale of Fair Trade products and the high level of consumer awarness in the EU.

[Sinistrous]

14. But, I don't particularly care for mushrooms....

[expatriot]

15. For the last 3 years my wife and I have only purchased fair trade

coffee and chocolate. People need to realize they don't have to be rich to make socially responsible deciisions as consumers. We buy union clothes (nosweatapparrel.com), are both vegan with much of our diet being organic, only buy fair trade certified coffee and chocolate and we rent a fricking single-wide trailer in an Okie-cholo mixed trailer park and only have one car between the both of us. socially responsible trailer trash we are.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Finally...I was beginning to wonder if "morals"

could survive all the hoo-ha about sex.

[Matariki]

19. about time people equate morals with social and economic justice

and respect for the environment. i've been waiting for this change for a long, long time.

[XemaSab]

20. exactly

this is a word we need to reclaim from the fundies.

[Shallah Kali]

22. Yes high time. Morals involve more than one's reproductive bits

and what one chooses to do with those bits. Things like a living wage, air that doesn't choke people, food that isn't just chemical processed junk, unpolluted water.

[Zhade]

21. "a so-called ethical coffee scheme"

Yeah, there's no bias in this article.

:sarcasm: