They do support some fair trade coffe, which is very nice of them, but the rest is your usual blood-soaked unfair trade variety, which is a lot less nice. I'm overly cold on the feelgood claims of corporate franchises in general. I want to check out Costa's claim that *all* their coffee is free trade (which Starbucks doesn't bother to pretend to). Even the Body Shop, it's apalling how many of their claims are completely untrue - like how 47% of the ingredients in their products are tested on animals, for example. On the other hand, Starbucks makes a wicked mocha and you can be garuanteed the same wicked mocha wherever you are in the world, and I think the wicked mocha is one of the fair trade ones. Or maybe I just hope it is. It's hard to live completely free of corporate filth, so it's good to pick and choose which corporate filth you're going to endorse & try to pick the lesser evils. Starbaucks, in other words, is not McDonalds, and that's better than if they were. Gods this is a long way of agreeing with you :p
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Date: 2004-12-18 04:18 am (UTC)I'm overly cold on the feelgood claims of corporate franchises in general. I want to check out Costa's claim that *all* their coffee is free trade (which Starbucks doesn't bother to pretend to). Even the Body Shop, it's apalling how many of their claims are completely untrue - like how 47% of the ingredients in their products are tested on animals, for example.
On the other hand, Starbucks makes a wicked mocha and you can be garuanteed the same wicked mocha wherever you are in the world, and I think the wicked mocha is one of the fair trade ones. Or maybe I just hope it is. It's hard to live completely free of corporate filth, so it's good to pick and choose which corporate filth you're going to endorse & try to pick the lesser evils.
Starbaucks, in other words, is not McDonalds, and that's better than if they were.
Gods this is a long way of agreeing with you :p