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I know you put that as a bad thing but your title made me laugh. Saying and then we shall go forth and feed on the blood of the innocent is like a joke saying between me and a good freind of mine. And then after I read the actual content i felt bad. Then I read the title again and laughed again. I'm such a terrible person....
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I've long been saying that the nasty aftertaste in Starbucks coffee comes from the blood of the oppressed.
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Something tells me not a very large percentage of the $4.00 frapacinos will be going to Rwandan farmers.
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In the morning I make my own. I use Equal Exchange fair trade coffee, and put in surcant (minimally processed cane sugar) and soy milk.
I occasionally visit Starbucks in the afternoon for an additional luxury beverage which varies widely epending on my mood and the tempurature outside.
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quote: Something tells me not a very large percentage of the $4.00 frapacinos will be going to Rwandan farmers.
Not likely, since Frappuccino's are made with instant coffee. On a side note, let me tell you how much I love telling that to the frappuccino drinkers who think their such coinsures.
I may work for these people, but I won't spout out any more of their corperate advertising than I absolutely have to.
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I buy my coffee from a little place called "Salt Lake Coffee Break." In the morning, I make myself tea. I use half and half and sugar, because darnit, I deserve a little decadence in my coffee!
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quote:I know that this is a good thing. That it will give poor Rwandan farmers (those that weren't mass murdered) something to grow to make money...
In general, cash crops only benefit the landowner. In the long run, we help the poor more by NOT importing crops from starving nations.
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I had that exact sentence typed out when I was writing my above post, but then I deleted it before I posted. Exact. Same. Wording. Honestly.
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Cash crops tend to mostly enrich large land owners, middlemen, and the FirstWorld. ThirdWorld farmers rarely receive much more than enough to pay off seed/planting/etc loans and subsistence. In the case of cocoa/chocolate for the last few years, the typical African farmer isn't making even that much.
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