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Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

 

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

 

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

 

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients


Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

 

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

 

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients



Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

Starbucks uses Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other genetically engineered ingredients

Starbucks Campaign Related Articles:

12,6 - Over 50 Cities Take Part in Fair Trade Day of Action
11, 29 - ACTION ALERT-Nationwide Day of Action Against Folgers-Dec. 15
11, 20 - Starbucks Rejects Genetically Engineered Coffee
11, 12 - FAIR TRADE COFFEE DAY OF ACTION DECEMBER 8, 2001
11,12 - Dow Jones Looks at Fair Trade
11,7 - Newsweek on Fairtrade Coffee
11,5 - Coffee Crisis Leads to More Drug Crops
10, 31 - Fair Trade Movement on Both Sides of the Atlantic
10, 28 - For Coffee Traders, Distasters Come In Pairs
10, 22 - Starbucks Fair Trade Improvements- Close but no cigar
10,20 - Action Alert- Humanitarian aid for those suffering in Nicaragua
10,15 - Organic Yogurt Offered in Starbucks Stores
10,1 - Starbucks Angers Nation's Newspapers
9,30 - Coffee Glut and Drought Hit Nicaragua
9,27 - A Few Field Updates from Starbucks Global Week of Action
9,27 - Coffee Crisis Affects Nicaragua Elections
9,25 - Starbucks Apologizes for Charging NYC Rescue Workers for Water
9,18 - Associated Press Covers Starbucks Protests
9,17 - Manitoba Covers the Coffee Crisis
9,8 - Starbucks Sued for Allegedly Spiking Their Teas With Ephedrine
9,7 - Support Nicaragua Network's Emergency Aid Drive
9,5 - Starbucks Labor Problems
9,1 - Starbucks Launches Campaign of Corporate Propaganda-Seattle Post
9,1 - Coffee Crisis Causing Domino Effect in Nicaragua-NY Times
8,30 - Jackie Mason on Starbucks- A Little Levity
8,29 - OCA responds to Starbucks Form Letter
8,22 - Starbucks Kills Another Mom and Pop Business
8,17 - Safeway Supermarket Chain Will Sell Organic Coffee
8,12 - 60 Congress Members Petition Starbucks for Fair Trade Coffee
8,10 - US Chocolate Companies Fight "Slave-free" Chocolate labeling
8,9 - Preparations Are Underway for a Global Week of Action Against Starbucks
8,8 - Global Exchange Launches Fair Trade Coffee Tour
8,6 - Coffee Quality Takes a Dive As Farmers Get Paid Less
8,6 - Is the Coffee Industry About to Turn Bitter in the UK?
8,2 - Shadow of Globalization
8,2 - Struggling
Kenyan coffee growers wonder where all the money goes
8,2 - Hard Times for Coffee Farmers
8,2 - Low coffee prices spark job losses in El Salvador
8,2 - Exodus of rural coffee workers alarms Nicaragua

8,1 - Starbucks Bows to Mega-Corporate Pressure
7,31 - USA Today-Fair Trade Coffee is Attracting Customers
7,27- Hard Times For Coffee Farmers
7,18 - Starbucks Competitor Provide Fiar Trade Coffee on Rotating Basis
7,13 - Grown in the Shade- Making the Coffee Connection in New Zealand
7,13 - The Big Experiment- A local look at Starbucks Protests
7,11- Images and News from the field
7,6 - OCA Director gives update on most recent meeting with Starbucks
7,6 - Grocery Chain Condems GM Coffee and Support Fair Trade
7,2 - Newsweek- How does Starbucks Profit while Farmers Lose?
6,27 - Associated Press Looks at OCA's Starbucks Campaign
6,27 - New Zealand Starbucks Not Playing Fair
6,25 - Starbucks Begins Responding to Global Protests
6,25 - Slave Trade Chocolate
6,25 - Black Community Slams Starbucks in Seattle
6,20 - Starbucks Won't Resolve Issues With Its Own Employees
6,18 - Starbucks Runs Greenwashing Ad in New York Times
6,13 - Black Community Announces Starbucks Boycott
6,13 - Starbucks Ranked with Infamous Greenwashing Corporations
6,12 - OCA Director Resonds to Starbucks CEO (letter)
6,12 - Starbucks Expected to Feel Heat From International Campaign (press release)
6,12 - OCA Rally Scheduled for Starbucks/World Bank Conference
6,12 - Confrontation Expected at World Bank Conference (press release)
6,8 Campaign Email Alert (please send to everyone you know)
6,8 - Record Low Coffee Prices Cause Border Problems
6,7 - Desert Deaths Due To Low Coffee Prices
6,7 - Fair Trade Would Reduce Smuggling
6,5 - Starbucks Continues to Evade the Truth
6,4 - If it's not Fair Trade, it's Slave Trade
5,31 - Genetically Modified Coffee May Harm Up to 60 Million People
5,30 - Story of a Struggling Coffee Farmer
5,29 - Coffee Giants Make Big Bucks while Growers Face Ruin
5,29 - PR Industry's Slanted Take of Campaign
5,28 - Near-monopoly of retail market a key factor in windfall profits
5,28 - Fair Trade Offers Farmers Better Deal
5,28 - Hard pressed Guatemala coffee farmers demand credit
5,22- Starbucks Needs Fair Trade Coffee of the Day More Than Once
5,21- Fair Trade Coffee Movement is Growing!
5,21 - Income Comparison: Starbucks Tycoon vs. Coffee Plantation worker
5,20 - Coffee Prices Slump, Yet Starbucks Enjoys Strong Profits
5,17 - GM Beans Threaten Millions of Family Farmers' Survival
5,14 - British Boycotts of GM Coffee
5,12 - Food Fights, FDA and Fair Trade
5,9 - Is your chocolate slave-trade or Fair Trade?
5,8 - National Public Radio Looks At Fair Trade Coffee
5,2 - Planning for Starbucks Global Days of Action
4,30 - Starbucks Campaign is Showing Success!!
4,25 - Coffee Farmers' Rights Trampled Upon
4,20 - U.S. Specialty Coffees Expanding
4,19 - Columbia Wants Coffee Destroyed
4,17 - Coffee Farmers Can't Afford a Cup of Their Own Coffee
4,15 - Coffee Prices Drop- Family Farmers Starve
4,13 - Coffee Farmers Send Out SOS
4,9 - Starbucks Campaign Update From OCA Director
4,9 - OCA's latest Starbucks Campaign Email Alert
4,6 - Campaign Diary: 5 days in the life of OCA's Ronnie Cummins

3,19 - *Starbucks Campaign Kickoff
3,19 - *Labor Groups Form Alliance to Take on Starbucks
3,19--*Sierra Club Backs OCA in Starbucks Campaign
3,19--*Starbucks Jaded History
3,19 - Starbucks Employee Leaks Top Secret Memo to OCA
3,19 - Seattle Weekly Takes A Look at the Starbucks Protest
3,19 - AgBiotech Cut Starbucks Campaign
3,18--*Starbucks Reacting to Upcoming Consumer Protests

3,18--*Interview With Starbucks CEO Orin Smith
3,18--*Starbucks CEO Responds to OCA Campaign Letter
3,18--*OCA responds to Organic Coffee Association
2,28--*OCA Letter to the Starbucks CEO




Background Info on these issues:

*Fair Trade Coffee
*Genetically Engineered Coffee
*5 Reasons To Drink Shade Grown Coffee
*Can Coffee Drinkers Save the Rainforest?
*Coffee and Birds (includes list of birds affected by coffee plantations)
*Fair Trade Coffee (Global Exchange Coffee Campaign Background)
*The Life of a Coffee Farmer in Chiapas
*Starbucks Evades Truth on Growth Hormone Issue
*Starbuck's European Invasion
*Bakers Concerned About Genetically Engineered Ingredients
*Report on USA Fair Trade Coffee Movement
*Researcher Identify Caffeine Gene In Coffee

*Basic Facts About Coffee
*Coffee Production (Labor and the Environment)
*What's Fair Trade Coffee?
*Starbucks Facts
*Genetically Engineered Ingredients in Starbucks Milk Products
*What is rBGH?
*Genetically Engineered Ingredients in Starbucks Bakery Products
*GE Coffee is on the Way!
*Starbucks and Fair Trade Coffee


Field Updates from Leafleting Events At
Starbucks Around the World

~Round 1 (March 20, 2001)

~Round 2 (June 25 &26, 2001)

~Round 3 (September 17-27, 2001)

~Streaming video of one of our rallies


~Images from the field

Fair Trade Links


An association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide.
 

Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. This link goes to their Fair Trade coffee section.

 

 
Ocean Beach Grassroots Organization is an independent nonpartisan community organization. We are dedicated to social justice, ecological wisdom, civil rights, as well as gender and racial diversity. We are located in the Ocean Beach community of San Diego, California.
 


Founded in 1996 as a fair trade initiative of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Markets 100% Fair Trade coffee from Guatemala and southern Mexico. Scott Patterson, Minneapolis, 612-870-3440.


United Students
Against Sweatshops

An organization of 200 campuses working on a national campaign to stop sweatshops. Issues of economic and social justice both on our campuses, in our cities and globally.


An index of Web resources pertaining to "the environmental consequences of cultivating and processing coffee as well as the means of improving organic cultivation and the biological diversity surrounding this crop."
Organizations that have signed onto the Starbucks Campaign along with the Organic Consumers Association.

Pesticide Action Network

Center for Food Safety

Friends of the Earth


Sustain
Fairly traded
gourmet coffee
  • http://www.oxfamamerica.org/students/index.html
    Oxfam America began a campaign to promote Fair Trade among campuses and communities in the Northeast in the fall of 2000.

  • CLOUDFOREST INITIATIVES: www.hwpics.com/cloudforest-mexico/ St. Paul-based 100% Fair Trade coffee company, purchases from Mut Vitz. Takes organized tours to visit coffee growing regions, and organizes speaking tours of Mayans to raise awareness in the US. 651-592-4143.

  • HUMAN BEAN COMPANY: www.thehumanbean.com Colorado-based Zapatista solidarity coffee company, purchased Mut Vitz's first container of Fair Trade coffee. Raises awareness and support for the Zapatistas through coffee production and education. To learn more about the political situation of the Mut Vitz cooperative, contact Kerry Appel, kerry@thehumanbean.com.

  • CAFE CAMPESINO: www.cafecampesino.com Cafe Campesino is a 100% Fair Trade coffee company that bought Mut Vitz's first container of coffee. Cafe Campesino also founded Cooperative Coffees, an importing cooperative for Fair Trade roasters. Based in Americus, Georgia; Bill Harris, 912-924-2468.

  • THE CHIAPAS MEDIA PROJECT: www.chiapasmediaproject.com The Chiapas Media Project is a bi-national partnership that provides video and computer equipment and training to marginalized indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. Based in Chicago, contact 773-583-7728.

 

 




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