Child labour, toxic pesticides, backbreaking work for poverty wages –
explosive new investigations show that Starbucks coffee is tainted with
abuse.

Tell Starbucks to stop coffee slavery:

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

An explosive new investigation by Coffee Watch and China Labor Watch shows
that Starbucks coffee is still tainted with abuse.

Working from sunrise to sunset, no rest, exposure to toxic pesticides, and
even child labour – these abuses all violate the terms of Starbucks'
Coffee Farmer and Equity (C.A.F.E.) certification scheme.

Clearly Starbucks' C.A.F.E. isn't working.

Let's strike while the iron is hot, and demand that Starbucks adopts
international fair trade standards to stop the abuses once and for all.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Starbucks to stop coffee slavery, and adopt international fair
trade standards NOW.

Four years ago, The Guardian reported that children as young as eight
picked coffee beans on farms in Guatemala supplying Starbucks. In 2023
Repórter Brazil’s report "Behind Starbucks Coffee" showed that the
company’s supply chain was still stained with rights abuses. And now the
"Ghost Farms and Coffee Laundering" investigation shows that the same was
true in Starbucks's Chinese coffee supply chain in 2024.

Starbucks’ suppliers have brushed off child labour exposés that they
couldn’t deny as simply human resources “mistakes”, while the US
coffeehouse chain claims to have “zero tolerance” for such abuse anywhere
in its supply chain. And still, the human rights violations continue…

While no certification system is perfect, experts have said for years that
Starbucks’ verification program–C.A.F.E. Practices–could be improved by
adopting international fair trade standards, and by including truly
surprise inspections to stop abuses.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to Starbucks CEO, Laxman Narasimhan.

We’ve delivered impactful petitions to Starbucks before, and we know that
the company can be moved with public pressure exposing its dirty secrets.
Our community helped make Starbucks improve its palm oil sourcing policy
in 2016, and in 2018 we exposed the company’s unmet promise to deal with
the mountain of its throw-away cups.

It’s almost 2025, and the world’s largest coffeehouse chain is still
linked to slavery. This has to stop.



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Eoin, Vanessa and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]“Ghost Farms and Coffee Laundering”: How labor violations enter
Starbucks’ and Nestlé’s Chinese coffee supply chain Coffee Watch 29
November 2024

[ [link removed] ]Report: Behind Starbucks Coffee Repórter Brazil 01 November 2023

[ [link removed] ]Children as young as eight picked coffee beans on farms supplying
Starbucks The Guardian 01 March 2020

[ [link removed] ]Fairtrade standard for coffee Fairtrade International 15 July 2021

 

 

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