The Stream - The real cost of your cup of tea
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I've been a customer of Rajiv Lochan for years, and I cannot speak highly enough of him, his family, and his products. I also think very highly of Sarah Besky, and her book is a must-read for anyone interested in tea, particularly Indian tea. Thanks again to Al Jazeera for the excellent journalism in this show.
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Its bitter truth that Tea garden workers are totally dependent on the mercy of the owners.Though they are working for generations and generations they dont have their own land and house.Their wages can afford only one day meal for two personsSimple food like roti dal or rice dal.Their wages are not paid timely they have to beg for it.
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My best solution to unethical Indian tea is drinking much more ethical and higher-quality Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese tea. India should learn a few things about tea and tea production from those countries.
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What I take away from all this is that I, a European citizen who likes tea, can do absolutely nothing to better the workers' living conditions. I buy relatively expensive tea from a Fair Trade plantation that claims to do more for its workers (better food and housing, a pharmacy, etc.) yet you say Fair Trade is ineffectual or even a prevarication. You imply that the only way to help the workers would be to change or better enforce the laws in India, but why should Indian legislators pay attention to me? I can't vote for them. So by drinking tea at all, I'm supporting these inhuman practices. Rather a bleak outlook, it seems to me.
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There needs to be more regulations put in place by the government. Simple, NOTHING else will solve this.
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Dude these two anchors are really hard on the eyes. 👀
One would think those billionaire Saudis would hire better looking anchors.
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No no what's with the rise in tea price the only solution.... That's good profit for everybody except the workers... As Mr sailendra rightly said unless the government realizes the problem nothing can be done. The industry is not going to solve this problem. These people say they have paid in kind but look at the quality of kind they pay they are paying rations of low quality have anybody visited the workers home??? Most of them are made up of mud and bamboo and tin....... So please people don't say we pay in kind.... You cannot survive on that quality of food and housing even for one day. And it's rightly pointed out how an product whose market price is upto 12000 rupees per kilo pays his workers only 120 rupees par day???
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Dang it !! Plantations?? Ya'll made me go look at my tea stash out of fear I may actually be supporting slave labour in the 21st century. Seriously!? Plantations still exist?! I thought we ended slavery as a species over a century ago. Give the farms to the workers organized as co-ops and be done with it. So now I have to ask... how fake is the 'ethical trade' label on my tea?
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Fine them owners for not paying well to these poor people look at fat guy whos the owner shame on those people who doesn't give the right money they will be judged by god severely 👎
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tea is way better than coffee, but let's be fair here, coffee still tops soda pop any time of the day
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love it nice thing
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