CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR
RONNIE
CUMMINS
POLICY BOARD
MAUDE
BARLOW
Council of Canadians
JAY
FELDMAN
National Coalition Against
the Misuse of Pesticides
NICOLS
FOX
Author
JEAN
HALLORAN
Consumers Union
TIM
HERMACH
Native Forest Council
ELLEN
HICKEY
Pesticide Action Network
JULIA
BUTTERFLY HILL
Forest Activist and Author
ANNIE
HOY
Ashland Community
Food Store (OR)
MIKE
IBA
Network for Safe and Secure
Food & Environment Japan
PAT
KERRIGAN
Wedge Co-op (MN)
JOHN
KINSMAN
Family Farm Defenders
AL
KREBS
Agribusiness Examiner
BRUCE
KRUG
NY Dairy Farmer
HOWARD
LYMAN
Voice for a Visible Future
CHARLES
MARGULIS
Greenpeace USA
VICTOR
MENOTTI
Int’l Forum on Globalization
ROBIN
SEYDEL
La Montanita Co-op (NM)
VANDANA
SHIVA
Research Foundation
for Science, Technology
& Natural Resource Policy, India
JOHN
STAUBER
Ctr
for Media & Democracy
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Ronnie Cummins Organic
Consumers Association
(218) 226-4164
1-888-403-1007 ronnie@organicconsumers.org
For Full Background
Material on the Starbucks Campaign see <www.organicconsumers.org>
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ORGANIC CONSUMER ACTIVISTS WILL LEAFLET
& PROTEST AT
STARBUCKS COFFEE SHOPS IN
OVER 200 CITIES ON June 25-29
CONSUMERS DEMAND STARBUCKS REMOVE BOVINE
GROWTH HORMONE (rBGH) AND OTHER GENETICALLY ENGINEERED INGREDIENTS FROM THE
COMPANY'S BRAND-NAME PRODUCTS, START BREWING AND SERIOUSLY PROMOTING FAIR
TRADE COFFEE AS ITS coffee of the day, AND IMPROVE THE WAGES AND WORKING
CONDITIONS OF COFFEE PLANTATION WORKERS
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PROTEST AT STARBUCKS
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ONGOING INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO DRIVE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS AND
CROPS OFF THE MARKET AND TO PROMOTE EQUITABLE AND ORGANIC FARMING PRACTICES
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«State» - Consumer, environmental, and social justice activists
in over 200 US cities and four other nations (UK, Canada, Australia,
Japan) will leaflet and stage protests in front of Starbucks coffee
shops on Monday and Tuesday, June 25-29. Protestors will call attention to Starbucks' use of genetically
engineered ingredients in their foods and beverages, as well as Starbucks'
refusal to brew and seriously promote Fair Trade, shade-grown coffee
as its “coffee of the day.” Events are scheduled for Seattle, Portland,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York, Buffalo, Philadelphia,
Washington DC, Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, San Diego, London (UK),
and scores of other cities--part of an ongoing international campaign
against Starbucks which began on March 20. Starbucks, the largest gourmet
coffee shop chain in the world, has previously indicated that it is
considering giving in to at least some of the demands of the Organic
Consumers Association and other groups, but still has not yet made a
firm commitment. The Starbucks protests coincide with a convention being
held in San Diego of America’s leading biotechnology corporations, the
Biotechnology Industry Organization.
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local activists will leaflet and protest Starbucks policies, demanding that
the company remove recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and other
genetically engineered ingredients from its brand-name beverages, baked
goods, chocolates, and ice cream; start brewing and seriously promoting Fair
Trade, shade-grown, and organic coffees as its “coffee of the day”; and
improve the wages and working conditions of farm workers on the coffee
plantations of its suppliers in Guatemala, Mexico, and other nations.
“Vague
promises and half-measures are not enough. Starbucks must either give in to
the demands of consumers and public interest groups around the world for a
non-genetically engineered product line, Fair Trade coffee, and social
justice, or else they run the risk of further damage to their reputation and
bottom line,” stated Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic
Consumers Association.
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