Fair Trade
Today we looked at Fair Trade with the cubs. We had a game that modelled the trading activities of sugar cane farmers in poor countries, and sugar beet farmers in rich countries, and the sweet manufacturers who consume their produce.
Needless to say, the sugar cane farmers had a much worse lot in life; so the winners, of course, were the sweet manufacturers – and in the discussion afterwards we considered how the game wasn’t very fair, but that the real-world situation it was based on wasn’t fair either, and what we can do to try and make things fairer for the sugar cane farmers.
Then we had fairtrade chocolate to take home!