Fair Trade-Meat

Hello guys,
today I'm going to tell you something about Fair Trade meat.

The most people in Europe eat meat every single day, but they don't even know how the animals feed and how they live.
The animals which are live Fair Trade, they live happy. They aren't just live in a small box and eat their food and when they are old enough they are going to be sleigh. In Austria more and more farmers are going to transform their production into Fair Trade-Production.

Our meat in Austria often come from other countries because there the meat is cheaper. But cheap meat also had his CON:
1. The meat often isn't healthy and on the package, there aren't any information about the origin.
2. The farmers which sell Fair Trade-meat didn't become enough money if the others "steal" their work capital=the shops didn't buy Fair Trade-meat anymore and the farmers has got a smashup.

But the buyer who buy expensive food with the "Ja!Natürlich", or other signs which guarantee that the meat is produce with Fair Trade, have their PROs:
1. The Fair Trade-meat is healthier.
2. The animals lived happy.

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Welcome to "Problems of our world"

By Kornelia Kostandin and Martina Markunovic

Chocolate

We are going to tell you something about the history of chocolate, how it’s produced and how about “Fairtrade“ chocolate, but first of all one little information about the popularity of chocolate.

Chocolate is for most of the countries in the developed world the 1^st  income stream, because cocoa is grown in tropical regions in these countries. 90% of cocoa is cultivated on small family farms (4.8 ha),  and most of the farmers count the turnover of these productions as their primary income.

The history of chocolate

The history began in Mesoamerica dating back to 1900 BC. Chocolate played a special role in Mayan and Aztec royal and religious events. Priests thought that cocoa beans are offerings of their gods. All areas which were used to plant cocoa beans had to pay them as a tax or “tribute“.

cocoa beans

The Europeans used the sugar and milk to sweeten the drink.

Chocolate was alwasy use for sweets and desserts but at first, just in Europe. In the 19^th century, Briton John Cadbury developed a process to make the chocolate solid and created the mordern bar.

For hundreds of years, nothing changed with the process but in the 18^th century the “revolution“ started. New machines were produced and the people began experiencing and consuming choclate worldwide.

A cheap chocolate

Althought cocoa is originally from the Americans, today Western Africa produces almost two-thirds oft he world’s cocoa.

The problems facing cocoa producers

·         Expensive production, but low prices

·         A lack of knowledge to find believable organizations

·         Lots of child and slave work in West African countries

·         In 2001 child slavery in cocoa farms, in the Ivory Coast, have grown 43% of the world’s cocoa.

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Solutions with the social movement “Fairtrade“

·         These producers are only small family granges

·         When the international markt price of a product is over the Fairtrade Minimum Price (comes immediately to the producers), then the farmers get this price + the Fairtrade Premium (is within the purchase price for social and economic investments).

·         Fairtrade also gives credits before the reaping (goes until 60% of the purchase price)

·         No child work and no constrained work


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A Fairtrade chocolate

 

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Daniel Rosa (4D) + Loren Steinbauer (4D)

Racism

                                                                                by Nikolaj Tessar, Luzhen Gong, Christoph Strauss

Racism

Definition: Racism is discrimination of other humans with different looks or cultural backgrounds.

Racism in Austria:

• In Austria not all people are aware that they are being racist. 

• Racism excists everywhere in Austria 

• For example: In 2011 a woman with black skin wanted to make a bank account but an accounted said: "People like you can not have an account here!"  This person tried it at an other bank and the response of the bank guy was: "What's your real job ?"

          Source: Zara 2011

 

Racism in school:

 

• How do you know if someone is racist? Sometimes it can be hard to recognise racism, especially if you're not the target.

• Examples:  

1. Making fun of someones clothes, food or physical appearance of people from different cultures. 
2. Telling jokes directed against people from particular groups.
3. Telling people to 'go back where they came from'

 Online racism:

• Online racism is a form which is spread by single people(sometimes more).

1. For example: When somebody gets violent, then people post untruth facts about that person on facebook, twitter, flickr, my space, instagram, whats app, gute-fragen.net, ask.fm, QQ, skype, etc.

Possible solutions against racism:

•  Everyone does his/her own stuff in their own life.

1. How can the problem racism be fought?
2. How can students be educated so they can join the right groups?
3. How can a resource teacher solve the problem of racism in school?
4. How are foreign students with xenophobia faced off? 

Thank you for reading our work about racism. I hope that we could open you a door in your mind and make you think about it.