Fairtrade Cola
March 1st, 2008 by Mark Tiddy
As people in this country seem to get more and more ethical and fairtrade aware (to the point where even evil of all evil’s Nestle now do a fairtrade coffee) it’s about time there were more fairtrade drinks than just juices and Ubuntu cola is the answer to one…
Websites such as Boycot Coca Cola (link) and Killer Coke (link) outline the unethical/moral practices of coca cola, there appear to be similar sites about pepsi too…and if Jamie Oliver did nothing else but teach us about free range eggs and hens then that was a good thing, however he also made me think about products within products…ie eggs within mayonaise.
The sugar in coke as a whole isn’t fairtrade…however in ubuntu it is!
Get Ubuntu Cola Into Supermarkets
The same way consumers are emptying the shelves of free-range chickens and leaving the caged birds, and the same way most supermarkets now sell some form of fairtrade chocolate, coffee and bananas because of the public desiring there to be so it would be good for the same thing to happen with Ubuntu Cola…how great would it be to have a refreshing drink that’s good for the community too.
Campaign To Get Ubuntu Into Supermarkets
To help achieve this aim of getting fairtrade cola in supermarkets please click here to download a letter, print off as many as you can, e-mail it to friends, pass around your church and fill them in and bombard your local supermarkets with them and let’s try and achieve fairtrade cola in supermarkets
The Taste Of Ubuntu
In Sheffield I found, purchased and drunk Ubuntu fairtrade cola…many people have commented in the past that fairtrade versions of things tend to be worse…however fairtrade cola is actually nicer than coke or pepsi (both myself and Jo agreed on that)…it has a nicer smell, it’s just the right level of fizziness and it’s not too sweet.
Buy Fairtrade Cola
To the left is a list of all the universities that sell fairtrade cola
Click here for a link to The Drink Shop - an online retailer selling Ubuntu Cola
Click here to go to ubuntu cola’s homepage
As developments continue I shall keep updating this page…in the meantime read all my ethical/fairtrade blogs here (link)
Fairtrade Cola Campaign Facebook Group
