What’s More Fair about ‘Fair Trade’ Flowers? - The Tyee

ALSO IN THIS SERIES: HOW FAIR ARE YOUR FLOWERS? What’s More Fair about ‘Fair Trade’ Flowers? How Fair Are Those Mother’s Day Flowers? Read the Label on Those Blooms The Cannibal Killers Behind the Perfect Rose BC’s Other Buds (Click here for the complete list of stories.) [Editor’s Note: Canadians’ growing taste for fresh flowers shows no sign of peaking. Here in B.C., flower purchases have grown by 20 per cent in just the last four years. Most of those blooms are imported, often from developing countries where nursery conditions have attracted criticism for being hard on the environment and…