Global Exchange : For Coffee Growers, Not Even a Whiff of Profits (#)
„Smith points to the company's involvement with various programs aimed at hiking the wages of farmers and improving the local environment. Starbucks recently unveiled guidelines that will pay farmers a premium price if they meet certain environmental, labor, and quality standards. Last year, the company joined TransFair, an organization that guarantees that farmers will receive most of the $1.26 per pound that coffee roasters pay for high-quality beans. "Our longtime suppliers couldn't make it if we weren't doing any of this," Smith says.“
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Tea & Coffee 08/01 - World News
„SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Starbucks Coffee Company recently unveiled Shade Grown Mexico coffee for the third consecutive year through its partnership with Conservation International (CI). This year, Starbucks purchased its largest supply of Shade Grown Mexico coffee to meet increased demand in several added distribution channels. Starbucks has also supplemented the coffee’s re-introduction by adding an interactive online experience to its web site that brings the endangered cloud forest of Chiapas, Mexico - the source of this environmentally friendly coffee - into the homes of consumers.“
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0801/world.htm
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Global Exchange : International Starbucks protest comes to town
„The Oxford Street picket, on the west end of the UC Berkeley campus, was one of 300 Starbucks protests planned this week by the Organic Consumers Association and other fair trade activist groups, including the San Francisco-based Global Exchange.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 379.html
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„The project is being funded by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle King County, along with the assistance of the Starbucks Coffee Company, which is donating an extensive list of equipment for the program and has agreed to interview graduates for possible hiring. The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) will also donate resource books, videos and posters from its capacious library. By June of 2004, the Youth Barista Training Program plans to graduate 75 students and speed them down the caffeinated road to gainful employment in the world of specialty coffee.“
http://www.freshcup.com/jan04_unfiltered.htm
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Winter: Coffee Achiever (INeedCoffee.com)
„On a day when Winter visits 30 Starbucks (it's happened), his work is cut out for him. His photos from these journeys are online at his site, StarbucksEverywhere.net , the compilation of a Coffee Achiever's travels.“
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/02/06/winter/
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CoffeeGeek - Members: Coffee Recipes, People Against Starbucks
„Just think about this: anything is better than McDonald's, Hardee's, or any other fast food place's coffee for that matter. No one's forcing you to go to Starbuck's, it's your choice. I used to work at a coffee shop & we always dreaded the people that complained.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/forums/members/recipes/ 103753
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