Yellow Dog Coffee Company
A number of years ago, I read a book by Julie Clawson titled Everyday Justice and wrote a blog post about it. In it, Clawson focused on how we can help bring equality, justice, and fairness to other people of the world by purchasing fair trade and organic items whenever we can. It’s a very moving book that made me realize we can help others on a daily basis by purchasing common, everyday products that are committed to treating the workers and the earth with fairness and compassion. And it’s getting easier all the time as more and more products are coming to market that are labeled as “fairtrade” and “organic” or “ethically harvested”. Because of that book, my family decided to change our food purchasing habits. We had become vegetarians a few years earlier and determined to purchase only fair trade, organic, and locally grown food whenever we could. Fortunately for us, our town is a little more progressive than others in our state (for Oklahoma, that is) and we had a couple of org...