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Favorite brand of coffee?
In article >,
wrote:
> In rec.food.cooking, Miche > wrote:
> > In article >,
> > wrote:
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> > > In rec.food.cooking, Miche > wrote:
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> > > > > What is your favorite brand of coffee and why do you like it?
> > >
> > > > Fairtrade. It tastes good and the growers are paid fair prices for
> > > > their produce.
> > >
> > > Fairtrade is not a brand, but a program.
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> > Same diff, it says "Fairtrade" on the bag.
>
> Yep. But it comes from a bunch of different sources. It is a
> certification, like "Organic".
Ours says where it came from, generally.
> Just as a point of interest, Fairtrade guarantees the farmers a minimum
> price per pound, but farmers get greatly in excess of the Fairtrade price
> for truly superior coffee at auction. So while Fairtrade offers a very
> good program for farmers, they can do even better by improving their
> quality to the point where they produce truly superior coffee.
And some may do that. I don't know.
> > > Everything else you said is
> > > correct. In general, fairtrade coffee is fairly good. Not the finest,
> > > but fairly good.
>
> > And that's good enough for me. It's more important to me that the
> > growers are paid a fair price for their produce than I have "picked
> > today, roasted ten minutes ago, hand ground" wanky coffee.
>
> But the wanky coffee yields a better price to the farmer than Fairtrade.
But it's priced so that I can't afford to buy it.
Miche
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