Sentence examples for exploiting coffee from inspiring English sources

As a favorite target of the antiglobalization movement, Starbucks has had to fend off charges that it engages in bad behavior, like exploiting coffee growers and selling milk with hormones of which some groups disapprove.

By exploiting the coffee trade and allying with the lowlands Buginese, Tiku was able to obtain large amounts of wealth, land, and power.

Others request fair-trade coffee, produced without exploiting peasants on coffee plantations.

Clark ends up wondering, "Is this even the kind of job where a union makes sense?" Does Starbucks exploit impoverished coffee farmers?

CARMELO ANTHONY: It's really terrible how they're exploiting those Nicaraguan coffee farmers.

This was in an era where people would walk out of a workshop at an anarchist gathering because the speaker was smoking (corporate) and drinking coffee (exploits the third world) out of a Styrofoam cup (bad for the environment).

The island has a population of 30,000, most of whom are farmers living inland, exploiting the fertile soil for coffee and copra.

A historical novel and an economically detailed romance of capitalism, in which a young Jew in 17th-century Amsterdam seeks to evade censure from the Jewish authorities and to build a personal fortune by exploiting the rising popularity of coffee, which he intends to buy cheap and sell dear.

By exploiting variation in the suitability of coffee cultivation and changes in world coffee prices, they estimate how the response of schooling to coffee price changes across municipalities.

It was the French colonists in Indochina who established Vietnam's first coffee plantations, in the late 19th century, exploiting the local peasants as cheap labor.

Mujahedeen commanders, tribal chiefs and other prominent Afghans opposed to the ruling Taliban gather in carpet shops, in coffee houses and behind closed doors in both cities to discuss shifting alliances and strategies for exploiting a schism among Taliban leaders.