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"It's a betrayal," said Rink Dickinson, president of Equal Exchange, a pioneer importer of fair trade coffee, chocolate, tea and bananas, based in Massachusetts.
Is "Fair Trade" coffee rather than Starbucks coffee the answer to the third-world coffee growers' plight?
For myself, I founded my own fair trade coffee company (Laughing Man Coffee & Tea) after getting to know a single Ethiopian farmer.
A 2011 study by MIT researchers found that consumers were willing to pay about 8percentt more for fair trade coffee than for equivalent coffee without such certification.
Starting next spring, Starbucks plans to increase its use of Fair Trade coffee by making it the "Coffee of the Day" one day each month.
This includes vegan, non-GMO, and/or organic snacks, fair-trade coffee, clean beauty products, and tree-free toilet paper.
But just because fair trade coffee currently makes up a tiny percentage of all coffee sold doesn't necessarily mean there is a much larger, easy-to-exploit market for fair trade coffee.
If it is fair trade coffee then you know that workers were paid fairly and the coffee was grown with care for the environment?
Fair Trade coffee, a pet project of the antiglobalization movement, has become a growing segment of the $55 billion coffee industry.
