Meet the Mum who fought the corporate giants and changed the world.

29 April 2011 | Posted by simon in All Good News, General

Listen to Radio New Zealand National tomorrow morning, Saturday 30th April, at 8.15.

Harriet Lamb, Director of the Fairtrade Foundation, will be interviewed by Kim Hill on National Radio this Saturday morning. She’ll be talking about her book Fighting The Banana Wars and her battle to make sure the food on our plates, and shirts on our backs, don’t rob people in other countries of the means to feed or clothe themselves.

Harriet became convinced of the importance of Fairtrade while visiting Costa Rica with WDM in 1997 to investigate local banana plantations’ use of pesticides already banned in the US for making farm-workers sterile, she met a woman called Maria whose husband had been exposed to DBCP while working on the plantations. The couple had had a baby boy born with severe developmental abnormalities who died after a short and distressful life.

In her book Harriet describes how “As we sat there and she showed me pictures of her baby rage bubbled up inside me because the companies knew of the dangers of this chemical but they ignored them. I have never, ever forgotten Maria.”

Listen to Harriet’s story tomorrow morning with Kim Hill on National Radio and remember to text in during the show to show your support.

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