Comments on: Starbucks uses ‘love’ to screw Africa again

By: http://www.freedomiq.com

http://www.freedomiq.com — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:51:32 +0000

Starbucks should be ashamed of themselves, if they are indeed “using” the same people they are claiming to help with their “Love” project. I love coffee as much as the next guy(or girl), but I refuse to be a part of something this dehumanizing. We, as consumers, need to do our homework before we start associating ourselves with businesses.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:02:49 +0000

If you guys want a real eye opener watch “The Corporation” or “The World According to Monsanto”.

For the record, it is a bullsh** PR campaign from Starbucks from the outset, but how do you really know. What it boils down to is it doesn’t matter where we live, the government is out to work for “The Corporation”. The corporate lobbyists even make the policy that screws everyone.

Developing countries do need help but not from us. They actually need us to stop buying what their exporting because a lot of the time these countries, especially African ones manufacture crops for export only to buy cash crops from everyone else. They incur a loss but often bull*** organizations like world bank make them….

Grrrrrr…..

Watch For the Love of Water, and The World Water Wars for a nice overview of how we actually don’t help.

This makes me really angry, i need to stop ranting though.

By: Jonathan Cherry

Jonathan Cherry — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:16:14 +0000

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.

By: Shaun Dewberry

Shaun Dewberry — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:43:09 +0000

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.

By: Smoky

Smoky — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:42:23 +0000

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.

By: Tyron Bache

Tyron Bache — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:11:47 +0000

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