Global Exchange : bostonglobe072901.html (#)

  „Americans will pay $2 or more for a premium cup of coffee. But de la Rosa, trapped like all small farmers at the losing end of a long chain of transactions between his coffee plants and the coffee cup, sees little of it. He's lucky to live on $2 a day.“

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Coffee History - Learn about coffee...

  „More than half of all Americans drink coffee, averaging 3 1/2 cups per day. Finland holds the per-capita title, with each person drinking more than four cups per day This means for each cup of coffee consumed by an American, there are 2.6 cups consumed in Finland. Most coffee cherries contain two half round beans, but in about 10% of the cases, the cherry contains only one round bean. When this occurs, it is called a "pea berry." Johann Sebastian Bach was so taken by the romance of the beverage, he wrote his "Coffee Cantata" and in it hailed coffee as "the most precious of blisses....“

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Global Exchange : nacla1000.html

  „That same week, the company announced a one-time shipment of 75,000 pounds of Fair Trade coffee. We responded that for a firm as big as Starbucks, this represented a "Drop in the Cup"--an average of only about 30 pounds per store--and the coffee was not certified! We then circulated an Open Letter, signed by 84 student, environmental, church, and social justice organizations, again asking Starbucks to pay farmers a living wage and offer their customers Fair Trade Certified coffee. We helped plan 30 demonstrations that were scheduled for April 13 across the country at Starbucks shops.“

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It's All About Coffee

  „According to the National Coffee Association of U.S.A. Inc., 108.3 million Americans over the age of 18 drink coffee daily. In 2003, 166.6 million Americans drank a cup of joe at some point, says Joe DeRupo, the organizations director of communications.“

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