The crisis brewing in the coffee world. - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada

The crisis brewing in the coffee world. - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada ()

  „Under the title ěMugged: Poverty in your coffee cupî, Oxfam proposed that the main processing companies (Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Sara Lee, Nestle, Starbucks and Tchibo), which together buy over half the world's coffee produce, should pay higher prices for the bean.  Oxfam asked the biggest commercial enterprises to convert at least 2% of their total annual purchases into buying coffee grown in the ěfair tradeî way, and increase that percentage over the following years. The term fair trade was invented by the Fair Trade Labelling Organisation ó an international group seeking greater equity in world trade ó so that coffee workers can receive a dignified salary and sell their product to enterprises that authorise loans to farmers without access to credit, among other forms of aid. The most sensible thing for producer countries to do would be to coordinate the sale of coffee among them.“

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Tea & Coffee 03/04 - American Espresso: The State of the Rage Tea & Coffee 03/04 - American Espresso: The State of the Rage

  „The big roasters, Kraft (www.kraftfoods.com/maxwellhouse), Sara Lee (www.saralee.com), and Procter & Gamble (www.folgers.com) roast most of their products for the common taste which is designed for other brewing methods than espresso even when the coffee is called “French.” There are few espresso blends produced, fewer still of the big brand products are ground for use in an espresso-maker. The bigger roasters in the U.S. are making comparable quality products to those made by commercial roasters in European markets including Italy. There is one large roaster only specializing exclusively in commercial production of dark roast coffees in the U.S., Rowland Coffee Roasters Inc, Miami Florida.“

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  „By comparison the canned "French roast" blends introduced by the three major commercial coffee players (Kraft Foods' Maxwell House, Procter & Gamble's Folgers, Sara Lee's Hills Bros.) were exercises in emptiness, in which a fancy name and a slightly darker roast style covered a literal lack of flavor of any kind, good or bad. Given the bitterness of their medium-roasted blends, perhaps the big-three blenders felt that a more attractive option would be to offer the coffee drinker no flavor whatsoever. (By the way, I am not being snobbish or hyperbolic here, but factual and precise.“

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  „They are the generic, roasted and ground coffees offered primarily by the three major coffee companies (Phillip Morris/Kraft, Proctor & Gamble and Nestlé). Commercial coffees usually blend beans of both arabica and robusta types. Even if the beans come from only one producing country, the sources or growing attributes of the blended coffees are difficult to trace or identify.“

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  „Oxfam is attacking what it calls the big four coffee companies - Kraft, Sara Lee, Procter & Gamble and Nestle - which it says buy nearly half the world's coffee crop between them. The charity argues that the companies make huge profits while farmers receive only 5% of the retail price. "They know there is terrible human suffering at the heart of their business and yet they do virtually nothing to help," said Oxfam’s campaigns director Adrian Lovett.“

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Tea & Coffee 11/02 - Editor's Letter Tea & Coffee 11/02 - Editor's Letter

  „Roasters - defend yourselves! There are many excellent and altruistic programs in which big guys like Proctor & Gamble and Kraft General Foods participate. I’m sure you’ll be able to show the public that you do give back. Tea industry beware!“

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