Most teens don't have the right to vote, but they've caught on to the power of the pocketbook. Kids are choosing sweatshop free clothes and fair trade chocolates as a way to advertise their activism. Evidently, it's become cool to care about the conditions facing farmers and factory workers.

"Paying farmers well is really important," eighth grader Emma Lewis told Christian Science Monitor reporter G. Jeffrey MacDonald, "because if we didn't have any unprocessed food, we'd all be living on Twinkies."

The 10 year-old ringleader of the bad food boycott, Daphnie Auguste, explained “If they tell us to don't eat junk food and then after school we sell it, that disobeys what they said.” and