You may already’ve known that you can get fair trade coffee-flavored ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s. Coffee, Coffee Heath Bar Crunch, and Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz, to be more specific.
Now, the company’s expanded their fair trade ice cream offerings to include Vanilla and Chocolate 
The Vanilla’ll hit Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops this month; the Chocolate in December. Both’ll be available in supermarkets and grocery stores in January 2007.
So — This means that Ben & Jerry’s is now buying fair trade coffee, cocoa, and vanilla from co-ops! Which is like yay!
And which also makes me ask — What ’bout the sugar? Cuz Ben & Jerry’s UK’s already using fair trade certified sugar for its vanilla ice cream.
Do we ice cream lovers in the US not deserve fair trade sugar? No fair! 
In any case, I’m glad that an awesome and yummy company like Ben & Jerry’s is making fair trade a bigger part of its company. In fact, Ben & Jerry’s has info ’bout fair trade month on the front of its site.
So — I’m gonna write Ben & Jerry an email saying thanks, can’t wait for the new ice cream! And also — can I have some fair trade sugar with that, pretty please –
For those of you who are interested in the issue of Fair trade, there is a powerful documentary out called “Black Gold,” that documents the lives of Ethiopian coffee farmers and clearly demonstrates why all of us should be asking for Fair Trade coffee. The film was recently released in the theater but is now available to the public on DVD via California Newsreel. You can read more about the documentary or pick up a copy of it here at http://newsreel.org/