Starbucks uses ‘love’ to screw Africa again

Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry in Totally Whack

Having recently watched the movie Black Gold – about the economic injustices of global trade and how Western coffee suppliers screw the Ethiopian coffee growers – we are particularly disturbed about this.

Screw you Starbucks

The Starbucks ‘Love Project‘ is a pathetic, bogus marketing campaign designed to hoodwink the world into believing that Starbucks gives a damn about Africa, but is in fact just a sick PR exercise to reconfirm the perception that Africa is filled with disease and helplessness so that Starbucks can continue to rape the continent for profit. See if you’re buying raw material from a place that is doomed already then it’s ok to offer peanuts as payment.

While repressive world trade policies still exist, every single ‘help Africa’ campaign you see is just another kick to the head for a continent that really doesn’t need the Western world’s illness-filled wheat aid.

So together with a reluctance to reduce carbon emissions and a continuation of unfair agriculture subsidies – the West will carry on with their bullshit ’save Africa’ marketing stunts while Africa continues to beg.

All you need is greed – and Starbucks has heaps of that.

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Tags: Love Project, Starbucks

4 Responses to “Starbucks uses ‘love’ to screw Africa again”

Tyron Bache

15. Dec, 2009

Makes me wonder who makes my coffee? How would one go about finding out who produces your coffee? thanks for the vid!
Smoky

15. Dec, 2009

Black Gold is a complete eye-opener!! wow, it makes you question where all our supermarket food comes from and what it is exactly. Developed countries sure know how to abuse every single situation to gain profit.
Shaun Dewberry

15. Dec, 2009

Wow, Starbucks will contribute US $0.05 for every contribution (up to 1 million contributions). Let’s see, that’s 1 000 000 x 0.05 = OMG! $50 000.

Starbucks earned $150 million during the quarter that ended in late September. Net revenue was $2.42 billion

Thanks Starbucks, for trying to save Africa from AIDS with your generosity. If I’d known it was so cheap, I would’ve paid the money myself a long time ago.
Jonathan Cherry

15. Dec, 2009

Boils our blood. BTW we have a copy of this movie that we’ll show next year at New Space or Pink Flamingo. Will make an announcement to that effect in 2010.