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Mark Ohe

“The fact that Starbucks charges $6 for a cup of coffee, when most of [the coffee beans] have been harvested by forced labourers and child labourers, is really beyond a criminal act. It’s morally repugnant.”

New lawsuits allege #Starbucks and other coffee chains continue to import coffee from Brazilian plantations despite knowing those owners used forced labor and child labor.

theguardian.com/world/2025/apr

The Guardian · ‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’By Tiago Rogero
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La Griffe

L’ONG Coffee Watch coffeewatch.org/ a déposé plainte aux #etatsunis contre 7 #multinationales du café, pour esclavage et travail forcé, par des importateurs de 1er plan dont les géants #starbucks #nestle et #mcdonalds coffeewatch.org/stop-slavery-t

Pauvreté, déforestation : l’arrière goût amer des #cafes Nestlé et Starbucks au #Mexique basta.media/Pauvrete-deforesta

Un plant de café
#esclavage#TravailForcé#deforestation
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webhat

Many things we may enjoy, coffee, tea, chocolate, among others, are farmed or processed using modern slavery. This is another, heinous example. Descendents of freed slaves, enslaved to harvest coffee sold to Starbucks, Nestlé, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Dunkin’, Illy and McDonald’s. They should be checking their supply chain, and rarely do…

‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’
theguardian.com/world/2025/apr

#DontPayTheGuardian #modernSlavery #coffee #starbucks @starSucks #Nestlé #DouweEgberts, #Dunkin’ #Illy #McDonalds

The Guardian · ‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’By Tiago Rogero
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dada

«Perdre son job pour une bonne action» : à #Marseille, la riposte de salariés licenciés pour avoir distribué des sandwichs destinés à la poubelle - liberation.fr/societe/perdre-s

> Renvoyés pour «faute grave» par la filiale française du groupe SSP, qui gère notamment Starbucks et Prêt à manger, ils donnaient des invendus à des sans-abri et des personnels précaires de l’aéroport Marseille-Provence.

Un rassemblement est prévu vendredi 25 avril à 11 h 30 à l’aéroport Marseille-Provence.
Libération · «Perdre son job pour une bonne action» : à Marseille, la riposte de salariés licenciés pour avoir distribué des sandwichs destinés à la poubelleBy Stéphanie Harounyan
#starbucks#justice#nourriture
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brad m

#coffee
“In spite of sliding sales, #Starbucks’s #UK retail arm paid out just over £40m in royalty and licence fees to its parent company”
“the latest #Starbucks #UK accounts reflected a long history of paying little or no corporate income tax with ‘surpluses invariably wiped out by substantial royalty payments to other parts of the business’”
“While #Starbucks’s #UK business has struggled, its cheaper rival #Greggs has been rapidly expanding” theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Starbucks’s UK retail business paid no corporation tax last yearBy Sarah Butler
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