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 [green LA girl] Starbucks Challenge update: 1st chat with Starbucks: In any case, there's a lot of controversy surrounding this cheap yet popular coffee -- Everything from small roasters getting disgusted at FLO for fair trade certifying a Nestle coffee -- another totally gross coffee maker with horrid labor and trade practices -- to internal debates between fair trade diehards. Some say that the focus should be on small coffee roasters that've based their whole business model on working outside of traditional "free trade" models, while others argue that, for the fair trade movement to tap into the mass market, negotiations with big bad companies like Nestle (and, less bad but still big companies like Starbucks) are vital...

[Lablogs.com] LABlogs :: A good cup o' coffee is hard to find: But it's tough to buy a brewed cup of fair trade coffee in Los Angeles, unless you're willing to spend a lot of time and energy bugging Starbucks baristas. So far, I've discovered Literati Cafe and Coral Tree Cafe -- they both serve fair trade -- but there must be others.

[Oregonlive.com] OregonLive.com: Kenilworth-Abernethy: I like that I know exactly how Starbucks coffee will taste and that they will always have plenty .If a company has generally good fair trade practices, .

[Omplace.com] OmPlace - The 'Conscious-Living' Directory and Alternative NewsRoom: Vandals targeted at least nine area Starbucks coffee shops early Wednesday - smashing windows, spray-painting anti-government graffiti, even splashing a goopy, acidlike substance onto several storefronts – on the eve of the first anniversary of World Trade Organization (WTO) unrest in Seattle. Chris Cain, an activist with the anti-WTO group, Global Action Seattle, said he was aware of the attacks on local Starbucks stores, but doubted any of several groups planning protests to mark the one-year WTO anniversary were involved.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Fairtrade, Open Coffee Library