hi grim

i don´t know if this is of interest, but i came upon this article in the economist this winter, called "good food? how ethical shopping harms the world" where somebody argues that fairtrade, food cooperatives and local produce are all rather harmful than good for the world at large. amongst other things, the strange assertion that buying locally may actually cause more co2 emission because less people have a farmers market closeby, so if they all drive there that will pollute more than flying food around ..? i´ve not been able to make much sense of this argument but just to tell you it exists, and theres been some debate in the economist to which communications people from the fairtrade association have replied (you can find this all online, unfortunately you have to pay to read the full economist article i think, and i´ve by now recycled my issue:)