Where you go for ethically-sourced coffee?

Yesterday was International Coffee day and I celebrate with pride that my Grandma was an inspirational coffee farmer and entrepreneur in her community for 6 decades.

Coffee has the potential to do good, but also great harm. The benefits and harm depends on how the business is run.

For example Starbucks does this according to the research that the Guardian posted: “High street coffee shop giant Starbucks has been caught up in a child labour row after an investigation revealed that children under 13 were working on farms in Guatemala that supply the chain with its beans”.

This is the breakdown:

“It was calculated that of £2.50 spent on a typical cup of coffee on the high street, the shop receives 88p. Staff. receive 63p and 38p goes on tax. A profit of 25p goes to the coffee company – such as Starbucks, which has an annual global revenue of more than £20bn, and has nearly 1,000 shops in the UK alone.

After other costs are accounted for, 10p is left for the coffee suppliers, of which 1p goes to the farmer, who uses a fraction of this to pay coffee pickers.” (Guardian, 2020).

Our coffee consumption can encourage justice or injustice. Where you go for ethically-sourced coffee?

Let justice roll like a river of café! ☕️