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How about what happened at “Starbucks” in Penn.?
Question: How about what happened at “Starbucks” in Penn.?
That chain reaction of generosity was fantastic! Workers said they never saw anything like this happen before!
For those that didn’t happen to hear it on the news…..people going through the drivethrough were paying for the car behind them, and it just continued a trend! How lovely!!!!!
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Answer by Chelsea Claus!
man i wish i was there!
Coffee & Coffee Shops : About Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade Coffee is an organization that respects the farmers who grow and collect coffee by paying a fair wage and providing support to the farming community. Buy Fair Trade Coffee to avoid exploitation of coffee farmers with insight from theowner of a coffee shop in this free video on coffee. Expert: Raphael Perrier Contact: www.kahwacoffee.com Bio: Raphael Perrier and his three partners own Kahwa Coffee Roasting in St Petersburg, Fla. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Let’s Talk Coffee (LTC) is the hallmark of Sustainable Harvest’s Relationship Coffee model. It’s an annual event that brings together all members of the specialty coffee supply chain to help build trusting, transparent, sustainable relationships. Sustainable Harvest is a green specialty coffee importer with a unique mission to link small holder growers to better paying markets using a concept it created called “Relationship Coffee.” Sustainable Harvest was the first importer to focus exclusively on organic, shade-grown, and fair trade specialty coffees. The Specialty Coffee Association of America awarded Sustainable Harvest the 2006 Sustainability Award for the creation and development of the idea of “Relationship Coffee”, for this new business model which has helped thousands of small coffee farmers and communities. This video is to share how small companies can start an industry trend by creating innovative and sustainable business trade relationships between growers and buyers.
Read MoreIf you are God and Devil comes to you and says “Hi! How are you? What about a cup of coffee at Starbucks”?
Question: If you are God and Devil comes to you and says “Hi! How are you? What about a cup of coffee at Starbucks”?
What would you do?
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Answer by cool_boy2290
be like no i do not like coffee and do not want to associate with you
If you are Devil and God comes to you and says “Hi! How are you? What about a cup of coffee at Starbucks”?
Question: If you are Devil and God comes to you and says “Hi! How are you? What about a cup of coffee at Starbucks”?
What would you do?
Answer:
Answer by John R
Wake myself up from the dream that I was having.
How Do You Feel About This?
Question: How Do You Feel About This?
Many campus coffee shops boast that they “proudly serve fair trade coffee,” but does the fair trade movement actually make a difference in the lives of the poor and disadvantaged? Is free trade also fair trade?
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Answer by Alexander R
lol.. this is the same as asking whether electric cars really save all that much energy considering the manufacturing resources they cost.
Whether windmills are beneficial for the same reason.
Whether organic and free range products are really any healthier or treated any better (respectively)
Whether locally grown produce requiring extra resources to grow in a foreign climate is any better than using gas to ship the produce from their native countries.
Unfortunately, we as society sucker ourselves into convenient ways of doing noble things. And companies often thrive on this need to “conveniently do a good thing” by marketing their products as more socially minded than they really are.
Often companies will implement superficial ‘Green’ policies just to boost their credibility and sales.
I’m not informed enough on fair trade coffee to give a definitive answer, but I imagine a lot of the exploited workers in colombia aren’t getting their fair share of fair trade.
And exploitation is going to keep happening for as long as the lowest price tag is the main prerogative in consumer culture. Which unfortunately, it almost always will be.
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