Clipper Fairtrade Tea

I've always felt the responsibility to buy Fairtrade but have ultimately been disappointed its offerings. Tea & Coffee, which is not as nice as popular branded products; chocolate that tastes like cooking chocolate; fruit & Veg, which is expensive. Why bother? Fairtrade is fair to producers and for most everyday items doesn't cost more . I once saw an excellent promotional video about how a farmers life had been changed since he was accepted into a Faitrade scheme. He now ran a business, instead of being a virtual-slave to a Western company; he could affort to educate his children; he'd bought a bicycle; he wasn't rich but he wasn't desperately ...  Read the complete review

Say what you want about this new age bracket of technology-fed, hand reared on console games, indulged and cosseted youths - but the one thing these human gifts to the Earth's future are - is more educated than the older generation stalwarts in the ways of recycling, distasteful prejudices (far too many and varied); plus the morally abhorrent Third World poverty, depravation and neglect that disgracefully still exists today... I am proud - if a tad more impoverished myself now due to her admirable integrity - to say my Emo/Goth teenage darling daughter falls under the category of a more caring, sharing, young and idealistic individual; who believes that small ...  Read the complete review

One of the greatest shopping revolutions since the Rochdale Pioneers set up their worker's cooperative, the concept of fairtrade is so truely incredible that it can't be understated. Not only has this emerging collective managed to convince shoppers to break with the addiction of buying the known, safe branded products which are forced towards us from the tv screen, and stacked unsubtly on shelves in our eyeline, but they have managed to uphold a truely promising principle of giving a fair share of the revenue back to the small-holding famers and workers who are growing and manufacturing these commodities. Whilst there are some who would gallantly drink ...  Read the complete review

A lot of the time, when companies give you free samples of something, in all honesty the product turns out to be so bad they'd have stood a far better chance of you actually ever buying it if they hadn't let you have an advance preview of it in the first place. This, as I've found out, tends to be the case with anything someone wearing a 'Starbucks' apron hands out to you for free in the street; also for anything fruit-flavoured you get in a miniature paper cup from a pour-your-own Thermos outside a 'Whittards' coffee shop (I thought they'd been a casualty of the credit-crunch / recession already?) So when I received an unsolicited, dented package of Clipper ...  Read the complete review

This brand of tea is really nice and has a full strong flavour. I have tested it out and one tea bag will easily make two strong mugs of tea (if you are desperate to economise)! This tea has a pretty good aroma too. I would recommend it as its not too much more expensive than other branded teas and is fairtrade! I can also recommend the massive range of Clipper fruit and herbal teas. They are all lovely and I think quite reasonably priced. A delicious golden blend of tea from the finest Fairtrade estates.Fairtrade guarantees a better deal for the producers, so the growers on these estates wil benefit directly from every pack. The only ...  Read the complete review