Drinking coffee with a clear conscience....

[marmar]

Watch for this movie "Black Gold" ... We all want to be able to enjoy our lattes guilt-free....



Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.

But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.

Nowhere more evident is this paradox than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man a mission to save his 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.

Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the more powerful sides of the international trading system begin to unfold. New York coffee traders, auction houses and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the enormity of Tadesse's task to find a long term solution for his farmers.

More at: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/home.php

[Eurobabe]

1. I went cold turkey off coffee in 11/04 for health reasons

n/t

[sam sarrha]

2. the coffie growers hold the wages of the pickers for an entire year, and

pay them the next season..

i am switching to tea...

[CanSocDem]

3. I just finished a double expresso....

..with cream. You want me to drink another one....OK, I will. Will it help the farmers if I have 2 double expresso's every morning. I can do that I love coffee. I love the way it makes my heart thump.....

[orwell]

4. Buy Fair Trade coffee...

...preferably organic.

[Richard D]

5. And shade grown (n/t)

[woodsprite]

6. Our church is doing that and trying to get as many people in the

congregation to switch as it can. They also have other products, cocoa, chocolate to name a few. We're working on those also

[JCMach1]

7. I buy the most awesome coffee in bulk (from the farmers) direct from Yemen

Will not go back to the crap masquerading as coffee in the US, or places like Starbucks....