Chris

Well Nestle, whose bottom line you're swelling with your coffee purchases, has an appalling reputation for screwing more product for less dosh from its third world producers. To say nothing of the totally a-moral way it markets its infant formula in rural African communities.

And Wispa is produced by Cadbury's, which owns a 'fair trade' brand called Green and Blacks. If Cadbury labels Green and Blacks chocolate as 'fair trade', what, by implication, is the chocolate that is not labled 'fair'?

The point I'm making is, suffering, and the causes of it, are always a lot closer to home than most people are prepared to admit. If God were to intervene to deal with all suffering, rather than just the big, headline-grabbing suffering you had in mind, it would have a very significant day-to-day impact on the way you live your life. Are you prepared to give up the personal free will that you would have to lose in order for God to do that?