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Tell Starbucks to Honor Their Commitments to Coffee Farmers
Target: Jim Donald, Starbucks CEOSponsored by: Oxfam America
Each year, coffee companies make billions of dollars. Starbucks alone earned almost $5.8 billion in net revenues during the first three quarters of 2006.
Yet, for every cup of coffee Starbucks sells, poor farmers in coffee-growing countries like Ethiopia earn only about $.03. Even worse, while Ethiopian farmers grow some of the finest name-brand coffees in the world think Harar, Yirgacheffe, and Sidamo they don't see the premium profits those names command among consumers.
With as many as 15 million Ethiopians dependent on coffee, Ethiopia wants to get its farmers more of what they deserve. The country's government has asked Starbucks to sign a licensing agreement that will allow Ethiopia to control the names of its coffee. That way, Ethiopia can help determine an export price that makes sure farmers see a larger share of the profits enabling them to feed their children, send them to school and get them better healthcare.
Ask Starbucks to sign the agreement giving Ethiopian farmers their fair share of coffee profits.
Yet, for every cup of coffee Starbucks sells, poor farmers in coffee-growing countries like Ethiopia earn only about $.03. Even worse, while Ethiopian farmers grow some of the finest name-brand coffees in the world think Harar, Yirgacheffe, and Sidamo they don't see the premium profits those names command among consumers.
With as many as 15 million Ethiopians dependent on coffee, Ethiopia wants to get its farmers more of what they deserve. The country's government has asked Starbucks to sign a licensing agreement that will allow Ethiopia to control the names of its coffee. That way, Ethiopia can help determine an export price that makes sure farmers see a larger share of the profits enabling them to feed their children, send them to school and get them better healthcare.
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START GETTING RESPONSIBLE STARBUCKS AND SERVE/SELL ALL FAIR TRADE.
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I'm not drinking your coffee anymore, and i'm telling all my friends to stop too. And I know alot of coffee drinkers. a lot!!
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Sharing your good fortune with those less fortunate than you can only, in the long run, be of good fortune to everyone.
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Happy landings!!
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It is important when I buy coffee to ensure that I am buying from a responsible coffee company. I love your coffee, make me love your company too!
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Help the poor, that is our duty and responsibility. Stop exploiting them for your own profit.
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You guys depend on coffee, right? Make your behaviour match your ad copy!
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Come on give them a little you guys make a whole lot you wont even miss it.
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Do the right thing. Ethiopian farmers deserve better.
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It's only fair
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It seems that Ethiopia's right to its coffee names, is like a copyright protection for inventors; didn't coffee ORGINALLY come from Ethiopia? DO THE RIGHT THING, Starbucks, in helping the coffee farmers who DESERVE a better break from the International Market. It's not ALL about the big, fat profits of Western investors, you know.
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As an ex-partner of the company I expect Starbucks to be much more pro-active with their farmers in Ethipoia. I know how loved the Sidamo and the Black Apron Exclusives from Ethipoia are, and I know how much Starbucks takes pride in their Fair Trade program....what I don't understand is why this program hasn't been implemented in Africa, why is it that Fair Trade is only practiced with predominantly Latin American coffees such as the Cafe Estima?
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Jesus said it best: "For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Then they also will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then will he answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me." (Matthew 25:42-45) Contained within every evil(greedy profiteering republican) act are the seeds of its own destruction. Adhere to the teachings of Jesus, as contained in The Urantia Book, or else suffer the consequences. It IS that simple. TRUTH has been spoken to power, Peace will prevail. Buck Fush! SUPPORT GLOBAL PEACE AND ECONOMIC STABILITY, AS WELL AS ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY... IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW!
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