"Have you heard about Fair Trade? It is a monitoring and certification system for crops from the global South like coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, bananas, other fruits, sugar, grains, spices, and nuts. You can also get fairly traded housewares, crafts, clothing, musical instruments, and more. Fair Trade ensures a decent income and labor conditions for farmers and farm workers, prohibits abusive child labor, and promotes sustainable farming. It is also really high quality delicious stuff, grown by farmers with generations of experience and pride. Fair Trade products are marked with the "Fair Trade Certified" or Fair Trade Federation labels (show manager what these look like). These two labels are the only guarantee that a product was sourced through international fair trade standards. Fair Trade Federation members also offer handcrafts, clothes, and house wares -- certainly some of that would be great, here, too! I prefer to buy only Fair Trade products and would definitely buy them here. Everyone I know feels the same way, this community is really behind Fair Trade! "

"Fair Trade is important because farmers can't survive in the world market, and the earth is being harmed by large-scale farming. Coffee farmers are losing their farms, facing malnutrition, and even growing drugs to make ends meet. Cocoa prices are also so low that farmers have been using child labor, sometimes even child slaves."

"Have you considered selling/using Fair Trade? Do you have any questions or concerns? I have information on Fair Trade and a list of companies I can leave with you, and would love to help you promote Fair Trade." (Use GX's Fair Trade Q&A to answer questions, and offer to leave a copy of it. To make the list of companies, see TheFair Trade Federation. Make a sheet with the names of companies that have high percentages of Fair Trade, and are near your area.) TransFairUSA and the members of the Fair Trade Federation have terrific free promotional materials to help products sell better. Both TransFair USA and the Fair Trade Federation have website listings of Fair Trade businesses, and can help you find the kind of products you want. You might also contact Global Exchange, a human rights organization with a national Fair Trade campaign."

"It was great to talk to you about this. I'll stop by in a few days to see how things are going and how I can help you get going with Fair Trade.