buy free trade coffee next time Forrest and you can feel all warm and fuzzy as you drink your coffee and think of the happiness you have brought the impoverished coffee farmers of the world
(My Politically Correct thought for the day)
COFFEE
Countries that have developed their capacity to produce and export cash crops are confronted with falling prices due to chronic world overproduction.
Overproduction has caused the price of coffee to crash by almost 50 per cent in the past three years to a 30-year low. Twenty-five million coffee farmers face ruin. Families are unable to buy medicines, enough food, or to send their children to school. The four big coffee corporations (Nestle, Sara Lee, Kraft, Procter and Gamble) make the profits, while farmers receive a smaller and smaller share of the market value. Ugandan farmers get 2.5 per cent of the retail price of coffee. Cheaper prices are not being passed on to consumers.
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