Our fair trade group is currently aware of the Starbucks/Ethiopian coffee issue at hand. For those interested who are unaware of the tension with fair trade coffee and Starbucks, an insightful blogger known as Poor Farmer provides relevant updates with this pressing issue.
On this blog there is a news article taken from Etho Online under the heading "Coffee Blessing, Curse in Ethiopia," that provides a startling amount of history of the coffee industry itself, as well as the pressing situation revolving around the conditions of the coffee workers (some children) in Ethiopia. I recommend this article for anyone who wants to learn more about fair trade and coffee, and I also recommend this blog. This site is http://poorfarmer.blogspot.com/index.html , and the blogger is extremely informative on this issue, providing many links to Oxfam and fair trade coffee.
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