Born England 1949, moved to Scotland in 1980, worked in various roles in co-operative movement for last 25 years, passionate about fair trade.

"Whenever we buy, or try to buy, cheap goods – goods offered at a price which we know cannot be remunerative for the labour involved in them – whenever we buy such goods, remember we are stealing somebody's labour. Don't let us mince the matter. I say, in plain Saxon, STEALING – taking from him the proper reward of his work, and putting it into our own pocket. You know well enough that the thing could not have been offered you at that price, unless distress of some kind had forced the producer to part with it. You take advantage of this distress, and you force as much out of him as you can under the circumstances." (John Ruskin)

Australia, Canada, most of Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, The Gambia, USA

English, French