06-07-2017 08:14 via theguardian.com

Sainsbury's AGM faces protests over plan to drop Fairtrade tea

Campaigners and shareholders criticise board for decision to replace ‘gold standard’ ethical label with its own ‘fairly traded’ productSainsbury’s has been accused of undermining the Fairtrade movement by experimenting with dropping the ethical mark for its own label tea.A series of shareholders and campaign groups criticised the supermarket group for dropping Fairtrade at its annual meeting in London on Wednesday, in an increasingly fraught exchange with the compan
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