Starbucks is the largest purchaser of Fair Trade Coffee

[proletarian48]

Fuck Starbucks, Fuck World Trade, Fuck Capitalism! Happy World, Happy Planet!

[fayer10]

starbucks is also the largest buyer of non fair trade coffee...

[Cienstin]

Does anyone else see the problem with the economics of fair trade as well as the economics of the environmentalist movement for everything 'green' ?

[1newgroove]

@Cienstin Yes. I just wrote an ethics paper on Fairtrade coffee and was a bit surprised to discover how lousy Fairtrade has been in distributing aid to farmers. Most of the cases that I ran into demonstrated that "fair trade" farmers were no better if not worse off than regular coffee producers. At this point, the costs of meeting the Fairtrade standards appear to be too high for fair trade to actually be beneficial.

[Cienstin]

@1newgroove

Are you say then that fair trade is merely a marketing strategy.

Have you looked into the effects of fair trade on local markets in these countries?

[1newgroove]

@Cienstin Yep. People can definitely agree with the ideals of Fairtrade, but it seems to fail in practice. After looking at the aggregate results of Fairtrade, it appears to me that it has done more harm than good. I would encourage everyone to look at the widespread results of Fairtrade and to look at the arguments against it (the article Unfair Trade by Marc Sidwell is a good place to start).

[billgatenbrad]

I don't believe it until I see it on the package and so far I haven't seen it on the package. I'm sure some of it is but not all of it.

[CariadSian]

That's wonderful - thanks for telling me - I have never once seen them advertise this fact.

[CariadSian]

During the video, did anyone else just see thousands of cups stacking up...the same way they do in garbage cans/ landfills around the world?

Right, they are recyclable...after about 80 years they begin to break down....

Hey Starbucks, why not encourage your consumers to bring their own reusable cups by giving them a 5 cent discount, a special recyclable punch card for a free drink after 20 or 50 punches if you wish, or how about a high five, or God knows what.

[jieeeee]

@CariadSian Starbucks does give consumers who bring in their reusable cups a 10 cent discount.

[ZebraDog7]

lie lie lie. check this out:

ahh!! it won't let me post the link.

type in keywords "starbucks liar fair trade on google

[canascot02]

@ZebraDog7 Ok let me share something with you that you're clearly unaware of. Certifying a product fair trade is not something a company can just lie about. you see Fairtrade is a world wide organization, and many countries have there own division ie. Fairtrade USA. This organization is a not for profit organization that certifies products as fair trade according to international criteria which has to be met. Cafe Estima from Starbucks is stamped with the Fairtrade USA certification logo. No lie

[irishbluejay]

hmmm... only cafe estima is certified Fair Trade

[plsdontemailme]

Starbucks - what is this sweet little ditty playing behind your ad?

[crystalclarification]

But not ALL of your beans are Fair Trade. All the coffee you sell in Costco and a lot of the bags in your stores don't have the Fair Trade label, why? Without that label, I have to assume it is not fair trade. If I'm wrong, please point me in the direction that I can find more information about where you get your coffee from. Thanks.

[ZebraDog7]

@crystalclarification u r right. they only bought some for show. they were pressured to save their name and rep.

[nadubarbu]

I love Starbucks.

[TheUrbanhippy]

this is really awesome, but ya know... I believe Starbucks is also the largest purchaser of coffee. ;)

[mkortbek]

@TheUrbanhippy Actually, Starbucks are currently only purchasing 3% of the worlds coffee beans. There are other coffee traders that purchase much more than Starbucks does. It has to do with Starbucks quality standards. They doon't purchase beans from traders, but directly from the farmers. Just some info :-)

[lyoshakz]

yeeeeeee

[b4myworld]

I love it!

[Maudio13]

FIIIIIIIIRST yeeehaay! sry bout that xD

[bboysaltillo]

@Maudio13 oooh denn lueg mol bim "one person can save trees..." video wer dötte erscht isch :P so by the way