Global Exchange : Global Issues Flow Into America's Coffee (#)
„"Berkeley has always distinguished itself, to put it politely, by a surprising originality," said François-Xavier Perroud, a Nestlé spokesman. BERKELEY, though, may be a natural place for the coffee controversy to percolate. The city is known as a coffee Mecca where couples go to coffee houses on dates rather than to bars, and where drinkers debate the merits of one roast over another the way the French debate the merits of wines. Peet's Coffee and Tea, a famous Berkeley roaster, was the training ground for the founders of Starbucks, the biggest and most successful coffee bar chain in the world.“
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Tea & Coffee 10/04 - Equipment & Packaging
„Roger Fuller, division vice president of consumer products- North America, said: “There is growing demand for extrusion blow molded plastic bottles, due in large part to the increasing popularity of protein smoothies and other fruit flavored and juice-based beverages as meal replacements and dietary supplements. Our plastic bottle technology is ideally suited for these products as it meets the demands of hot and cold fill as well as aseptic filling and offers advanced oxygen and light barriers that protect the nutritional content and flavor beverages.”“
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BBC News | Hurricane Mitch | Coffee crops hit by hurricane
„"For the time being we don't have a way of getting the beans out of Guatemala," said coffee trader Bernhard Rothfos. Central America produces about 8% of the world's coffee, and its Arabica beans are highly prized in North America. Up until the disaster struck, coffee prices had been kept down by a massive harvest in Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer. Sugar and bananas also hit Sugar producers have also been hitThe price of sugar has also been rising on futures markets as further details of the damage came through.“
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„Last November, I spent a week in Costa Rica, politically and socially the most progressive country in Central America and a long-time leader in coffee quality and technology. Costa Rica's success has resulted in a higher standard of living than its neighbors and in the highest coffee production costs in Central America. It is a country famous for its environmental stewardship and has successfully dealt with many issues that its poorer neighbors have yet to confront (such as water pollution from coffee milling). Visiting this beautiful country at a time of crisis in coffee offered valuable insight into the problems all producers of fine, washed arabica coffees are soon likely to face.“
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BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Last al-Qaeda stronghold 'falls'
„"Anyone who paves the way for al-Qaeda forces to live in the White Mountains will be given capital punishment," Hazrat Ali said. In other developments: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, visiting Afghanistan, says US sole war aim is to defeat terrorism Plans for a possible al-Qaeda terror attack on central London have been found in Kandahar, the Portuguese paper Expresso reports Several US marines injured while on demining duty at Kandahar airport US special envoy James Dobbins to reopen the US embassy in Kabul as a liaison office on Monday A British-led military team is in Kabul to urge Afghanistan's new administration to accept a substantial international peacekeeping presence Bin Laden's voice The defeat of al-Qaeda on Afghan soil has, however, done nothing to resolve the mystery of Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts. "Osama Bin Laden is not here," tribal commander Haji Zaman said. An unconfirmed report from Washington said Bin Laden had been heard giving orders over a short-range radio in the Tora Bora mountains over the past week.“
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