Who makes your breakfast?

"Before you've finished your breakfast this morning, you'll have relied on half the world"
- Martin Luther King

An interesting thought. And a depressing one, when we realise that the people we rely on for our coffee and muesli are often exploited and oppressed by the unfair power balance in world trade.

Breakfast is often remarked as the most important meal of the day; it provides a source of slowly released energy that helps us work throughout the day, gives us an opportunity to eat grains and fruit, boosts our immune system, can help lower cholesterol and staves off the increase in appetite that leads to an eating binge later on in the day. With all these good things about breakfast, it can make you think, is my breakfast good itself?

You can celebrate World Fair Trade Day
on Saturday the 12th of May this year!

The theme for the upcoming World Fair Trade Day (Sat, 12th May) is just that; make your breakfast a good, wholesome and ethical breakfast, full of fairly traded foods and drinks. To support this we are putting a discount on various fairly traded breakfast products in the Rainbow Turtle Shop in advance of World Fair Trade Day, with the hope of encouraging more people to have a Fair Trade breakfast on Saturday the 12th, and to think about their breakfast and where it comes from. The Fairtrade Foundation website has a list of recipes to inspire, and a full guide to having a Fairtrade breakfast!

We are also planning to host a Fair Trade Breakfast on the day, inside the shop, and all are invited to drop by and sample delicious jams and marmalades (on toast), fresh Coffee and Tea, orange juice and quality cereal, all fairly traded!

Breakfast products will start going on sale this Saturday, so If you are thinking of having a Fair Trade breakfast at home, or with a friend, or if you are looking to join us on the 12th, pop by the Rainbow Turtle Shop and have a wee look.