Fair Trade:  Internationally used, this label guarantees that prices, working conditions and wages meet a strict set of standards that ensure farmers and farm workers in developing nations receive a fair price for their product. …grown by small-scale producers who are democratically organized in cooperatives or unions, and farmers must have direct trade relations with buyers, access to credit and a say in how their products are created and sold. This program helps farmers lift themselves out of poverty.

Organic: The US Dept of Agriculture developed standards that must be met by producers using this label in the United States. Organic food is produced without the use of synthetic and petroleum derived pesticides and fertilizers, antibiotics, genetic engineering or irradiation.