According to Chobani, the collaboration with Fair Trade USA detailed below was meant to create comprehensive standards for ensuring sound labor, environmental and animal welfare conditions on dairy farms.

Anna Canning of the Fair World Project argues that an enforceable, worker-driven approach to protecting workers’ rights in the dairy industry, along with partnering with organized workers’ groups, offer a better solution.

We invited Chobani and Fair Trade USA to respond to the Fair World Project commentary. Chobani indicated that they did not have anything further to share at this time, and sent a link to Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya's CNN piece. Fair Trade USA's response is linked below.