Slippery

I am struggling with the story on fair trade bananas on so many levels.

A fair trade company fouond to not be so fair once it got to the UK and had Polish workers. Although the bananas may come from a fair trade source the packers over here were put through some terrible conditions and not given a break or allowed to go to the toilet. It highlights the plight of migrant workers in the UK.

Apparently Jacqui Mckay, national co-ordinator for Banana Link told Ethical Corporation this morning that this kind of expoitation is due to UK supermarkets squeezing their supply chains in Banana price wars. There is an organisation called Banana Link. How cool is that? Some readers of my blog will like Banana Link because they are aprt of the anti-Tesco campaign.

Then the name of the company, "Pratts Bananas". Well, judging from this story, they have certainly slipped on one of their own banana skins and taken a prattfall here.