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- West Bridgewater, MA
- United States
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- What state do you live in?
- Massachusetts
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- Equal Exchange, fairly traded coffee, tea, chocolates and snacks, is located in Massachusetts. We are working to create stronger local communities, a more just food system and a healthier planet.
- Website address #1:
- http://equalexchange.coop
- Website address #2:
- http://smallfarmersbigchange.coop
Equal Exchange has created Big Change for over 20 years. It all started with an idea: what if food could be traded in a way that is honest and fair, a way that empowers both farmers and consumers? What if trade supported family farms that use organic methods, rather than industrialized agribusinesses that rely on harmful chemicals?
Our founders – Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal and Michael Rozyne – asked these questions as they envisioned a trade model that values the farmers, consumers and the earth. So they took a big risk and plunged full-force into changing a broken food system. In 1986, they started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn’t look back.
Today, Equal Exchange continues to find new and powerful ways to build a better food system. Our products now include fairly traded and organic coffee, tea, chocolate and snacks from farmers all over the world, including here in the United States.
Our worker-owned co-op is based in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Because Equal Exchange was founded with democratic principles in mind, we strongly believe in a one-person, one-vote workplace without a corporate hierarchy. We partner with co-operatives of small-scale farmers who make their own decisions on business and community matters.
From the farmers’ co-ops to our co-op, we’re providing the best-tasting foods - while also making Big Changes to the way food ends up on your table. We’ll keep the ideas coming.
Our founders – Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal and Michael Rozyne – asked these questions as they envisioned a trade model that values the farmers, consumers and the earth. So they took a big risk and plunged full-force into changing a broken food system. In 1986, they started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn’t look back.
Today, Equal Exchange continues to find new and powerful ways to build a better food system. Our products now include fairly traded and organic coffee, tea, chocolate and snacks from farmers all over the world, including here in the United States.
Our worker-owned co-op is based in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Because Equal Exchange was founded with democratic principles in mind, we strongly believe in a one-person, one-vote workplace without a corporate hierarchy. We partner with co-operatives of small-scale farmers who make their own decisions on business and community matters.
From the farmers’ co-ops to our co-op, we’re providing the best-tasting foods - while also making Big Changes to the way food ends up on your table. We’ll keep the ideas coming.
Watch this video on Equal Exchange's January 2008 trip to Chiapas, Mexico:
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